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http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/03/151282913/what-america-s-women-do-for-work

What American Women Do For Work : Planet Money

Forty years ago, only 1 in 3 American workers was a woman.

Shakespeare Insult Kit

Shakespeare Insult Kit Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou": http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/shake_rule.html
1. FAULTY CAUSE: ( post hoc ergo propter hoc ) mistakes correlation or association for causation, by assuming that because one thing follows another it was caused by the other. example: A black cat crossed Babbs' path yesterday and, sure enough, she was involved in an automobile accident later that same afternoon. example: The introduction of sex education courses at the high school level has resulted in increased promiscuity among teens. A recent study revealed that the number of reported cases of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) was significantly higher for high schools that offered courses in sex education than for high schools that did not.

Fallacy List

http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/rgass/fallacy3211.htm

Fred O'Bryant's Quote Collection - Volume 5

http://people.virginia.edu/~jfo/quotes/quotes5.html There are 500 quotes in this volume. To find a quote by a specific author, or that includes a particular word or phrase, use your browser's FIND function to search for the quote you want. Every effort has been made to attribute the source of each quotation properly. Anyone finding an error or who knows the source for any quotation marked "Unknown" or "Anonymous" please contact Fred O'Bryant . A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one. — Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)