My guest this week is an American treasure, Peggy O’Mara, who was the editor of Mothering magazine from 1980 through 2011. Through her work with Mothering, I consider her the founder of the modern vaccine awareness movement. What she wrote and published at the time seemed more like common sense than a potential source of controversy.
“If you go in a focus group and say, ‘Are you afraid of getting HIV if you’re at risk?’ ‘Oh, absolutely’. ‘Are you afraid of getting cancer?’ ‘Oh, absolutely’. Are you afraid of the flu? Don’t bother me’. I mean, that’s the reality of how people perceive flu.” — Anthony Fauci, October 29, 2019
We often hear that "all men want is sex." Is that true, or is it a narrative? In this edition I look at the matter of the projection of sexual material onto people, exploring the idea that there is always someone who is a bigger pervert, which makes people feel better about their needs and desires.
Why is a New Yorker with cerebral palsy my nomination for the face of the United States Pluto return? And what is that transit? In my view, she is the Paul Revere of the New American Revolution. Her "midnight ride" was aboard an electric wheel chair Monday in Foley Square Park.
