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"'No' is a complete sentence."

There's a lot of victim blaming in these chapters on domestic violence, and without exception the author speaks of men as the abusers and women as the victims.

I like this more when he gives real life examples and uses them to teach instead of making up examples and speaking theoretically. The first is easy to read, the second is not.

This has to go back to the library, and obviously I'm not reading it, but if I try again, page 97 "The Elements of Prediction."

James Burke: "All that can accurately be said about a man who thinks he is a poached egg is that he is in the minority."

"The !Kung of the Kalahari were called 'the harmless people' in a book by the same title, but Melvin Konner, whose search for the answers took him more than once to study hunter-gatherers in Africa, concluded that 'again and again, ethnographers have discovered Eden in the outback, only to have the discovery foiled by better data.'"

I think I'll do myself a favor and not read this book after dark.