In high-school in Southern Minnesota I had a speech class where we had to write a speech about an event in our lives. Its high school, and there's a lot of speeches about sports or The Big Game. And then a Somali kid gets up, and he tells the story of getting out of Somalia. (1/x)

@iwriteok.bsky.social true fact, until the BtB episode about it the only time I'd heard of laetrile was from *Doonesbury* compilations boingboing.net/2012/07/19/w...

Weird medical history, ripped from the archives of Doonesbury

My introduction to Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury happened around the age of 8, when I discovered my father's anthology collections. (I was extraordinarily up on early 1970s pop culture for a…

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