Thanks, Jon…
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You posted a tweet by this lady before. I checked out a few of her other tweets, and liked them well enough that I put her on a follow… Since then I have been amazed by the consistent quality of her arguments.
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@jon-nyc said in Thanks, Jon…:
Seems like we need Hitchens more than ever.
It would be interesting to see his thoughts on Ukraine, particularly vis-a-vis his comments on the Iraq war.
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@jon-nyc said in Thanks, Jon…:
Seems like we need Hitchens more than ever.
It would be interesting to see his thoughts on Ukraine, particularly vis-a-vis his comments on the Iraq war.
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I was curious if he had anything to say about Putin so I checked “The Quotable Hitchins”, a book of his quotes arranged by topic. Nothing there.
But I got curious and found one entry on DJT:
@jon-nyc said in Thanks, Jon…:
I was curious if he had anything to say about Putin so I checked “The Quotable Hitchins”, a book of his quotes arranged by topic. Nothing there.
Here jon:
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@jon-nyc said in Thanks, Jon…:
I was curious if he had anything to say about Putin so I checked “The Quotable Hitchins”, a book of his quotes arranged by topic. Nothing there.
Here jon:
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Wheelchair pretender?
Pfft...If you're going to identify as something, don't pretend. If you want to be blind, go for it.
Ever since she was a little girl, Jewel Shuping dreamed of being blind. The North Carolina resident was born perfectly healthy, but she became so obsessed with losing her sight that at age 21, she took matters into her own hands.
Shuping claims that she had a psychologist pour drain cleaner in her eyes, then waited to seek medical attention. Afterwards, she gradually lost her eyesight and is now almost completely blind, she says.
“I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth,” the 30-year-old says.
Shuping has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) – a rare condition causing able-bodied people to believe they are supposed to be disabled. She has long fantasized about being blind.
“When I was young, my mother would find me walking in the halls at night. When I was 3 or 4 years old,” Shuping recalls. “By the time I was 6 I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable.”
Shuping acquired a white cane in her teens and could read Braille fluently by the time she was 20. As the years progressed, so did her desire to be blind.
So, she decided to take matters into her own hands. In 2006, Shuping claims she found a sympathetic psychologist who agreed to pour drain cleaner into her eyes (the two first met for a few weeks to make sure Shuping was ready).
