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Author Archives: Cliff Doerksen
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Into the Friar
An inquisitor poses some tough questions: Where do you get those robes? And can you exercise in them?
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Mommy Track
Savannah Tribune, November 9, 1922. Call me judgmental, but that is just plain bad parenting.
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Spinster Sex Cult Slaying
Detroit News, April 10, 1931. According to Google Earth, it’s 269 freakin’ miles from Pittsburgh to Forty Fort, Pennsylvania—quite the walk home for Frances. But then what is a Wellesley girl supposed to do when a 76-year-old witch ensorcels her husband with intent to build a sex cult around him?
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Kill ‘Em All, Let God Sort ‘Em Out
Chicago Tribune, January 19, 1919. As we all know from Charles Bronson movies, shrinks and their natural allies, liberal judges, are soft on crime and that’s why the whole world has gone to hell in a gay, socialist, heroin-addicted handbasket. It wasn’t always thus, however: Here’s one tough-minded clinician who had the moral courage to […]