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Dave Wilton

05 Feb 2025 • 7 min read
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Advertisement for a film with photographs of a young woman and of a group of young men against a collegiate background

college widow

27 April 2026 College widow is a term you don’t hear anymore, except in historical usage. It harkens back to a time when only men attended university and short-lived love affairs between the male students and female residents of college towns were common. A college widow was often, but
27 Apr 2026 5 min read
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Japanese woodblock print of a bat flying in front of the moon

moonbat

24 April 2026 Moonbat is a slang term for a crazy person that suddenly rose to prominence in 2003. Like most slang terms, its origin cannot be determined with certainty, but it likely formed through a mixing of two other metaphorical terms, barking/howling at the moon and bats in
24 Apr 2026 1 min read
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