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Best Song of 2022: Meghan Trainor, Mother - Fan Art

 The song I needed this week was supplied to me by YouTube Music's AI. Mother by Meghan Trainor. Inspired by all the men telling her what to write, what career choices to make, and that having a baby would end her career. And just plain talking down to her as if she was worth less. The best lyric: "You with your God complex, But you can't even make life, bitch" Which goes out from me to all of the men who think I am worth less, as a woman, and as a woman who has chosen to be a stay at home mom. "I am your mother You listen to me Stop all that mansplainin', no one's listening..." Fan art based on the video. Thank you, Meghan Trainor. Full lyrics: I am your mother (I am your mother) You listen to me (you listen to me) Stop all that mansplainin', no one's listening Tell me who gave you the permission to speak? I am your mother (I am your mother) You listen to me Mr. Big boy, pullin' up in your big toy Sayin' all that blah-blah-blah, maki...

The Loftus "Princess"

 In Northumbria, in the U.K., near the North Sea coastline, is an archaeological site near the town of Loftus.  It contains a circular enclosure of post holes surrounding a raised center, dated to 2200 BCE.  It is thought to have been a ritual site.  Other structures at the site include the "Oldest House", which predates Stonehenge.   In addition the Neolithic ceremonial site, the area was also the site of an Iron Age settlement.  Superimposed, cutting through the Iron Age houses, 109 early medieval graves have been found.  "Each was dug carefully into the ground to allow enough room for a body to be laid in the foetal position on its side....Beads, scraps of metal, parts of eroded weapons all suggested that these burials were not Iron Age, but more recent....more excitingly still, they seemed to date from a period when this part of the north of England was undergoing an ideological revolution.  They dated from when Christianity was putting i...