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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… cavalier (adjective , noun): adjective : marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful dismissal of important matters – a cavalier attitude toward money, has a cavalier disregard for the rights of others 2 : debonair 3a capitalized : of or relating to the party of Charles I of

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The Value of a Reputation

The Value of a Reputation

Matt Judd As someone who has a science qualification with chemistry, physics, maths and statistics and also another set of qualifications which required a series of about fifteen tertiary level exams through my twenties and thirties, I know the struggle that the average doctor goes through to get where they

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… loll (verb): 1 : to hang loosely or laxly : droop 2 : to act or move in a lax, lazy, or indolent manner Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Loll has origins similar to those of another soothing verb, lull, which means “to cause to rest or sleep.” Both

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… intransigent (adjective): characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an often extreme position or attitude Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : English speakers borrowed “intransigent” in the 19th century from Spanish intransigente (“uncompromising”), itself a combination of the familiar prefix in- (“not”) and “transigente” (“willing to

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Pubic Hair, Nudism and the Censor

Annebella Pollen University of Brighton Dr Annebella Pollen is an academic with interests in material and visual culture. Her research areas include mass photography and the popular image, and histories of art, craft, design and dress, especially marginal, alternative and non-canonical forms. I look at nude bodies all the time

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… mettle (noun): 1a : vigor and strength of spirit or temperament b : staying quality : stamina 2 : quality of temperament or disposition Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Originally, mettle was simply a variant spelling of the word metal (which dates to at least the 13th century), and it

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Seven Theories of Why the Lockdowns Happened

Edward Hadas brownstone.org Edward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford. His book on Catholic Social Teaching appeared in 2020 1. First Level of Explanation: Panic Over a few weeks of March 2020, the collective consciousness of Western nations moved from curiosity about the new virus in China

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What Have We Become?

I am becoming increasingly horrified at the state of our society. While we do not yet have the draconian rules for travel and vaccines that they have in Germany and Austria, somehow we seem to have become a totally divided nation. These divisions are not along racial lines, although the

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The Despicable Defamation of a Lifesaving Doctor

Joyce Kamen rescue.substack.com Joyce Kamen is the VP of public information at the Frontline Covid19 Critical Care Alliance (flccc.net). She is an Emmy award-winning writer, publicist, journalist, columnist, and producer of documentary films. My husband Fred and I had dinner recently at the home of good friends,

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… sentient (adjective): 1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions – sentient beings 2 : aware 3 : finely sensitive in perception or feeling Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : You may have guessed that sentient has something to do with the senses. The initial spelling sent- or sens- is

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Medicine Should Be Non-violent

Medicine Should Be Non-violent

Scott Morefield brownstone.org Scott Morefield spent three years as a media & politics reporter with the Daily Caller, another two years with BizPac Review, and has been a weekly columnist here at Townhall since 2018. As a thought experiment, I posted the following statement to Twitter last week: “Unless

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Choose Kindness

Choose Kindness

Circulating on Facebook The Vaccinated People Are Scared. They’re scared to get COVID. They’re scared someone they love might get it and possibly die from it. They were worried they might not get to travel again or see their international families. They’re not ignorant or ‘sheeple’ – they

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The BFD Word of the Day

The BFD Word of the Day

The word for today is… culminate (verb): 1 of a celestial body : to reach its highest altitude 2a : to rise to or form a summit b : to reach the highest or a climactic or decisive point 3 to bring to a head or to the highest point Source : Merriam -Webster

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