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### How Emotional Memes Destroy Facts and Logic

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## [Women Surfers Push Beyond Equal Pay—Even If It Means Letting Men into the Water, Too](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17342:women-surfers-push-beyond-equal-pay-even-if-it-means-letting-men-into-the-water-too&catid=312)

Experts said the precedent could compel equal pay at marathons, bike races, skateboard contests—any athletic events on public land. (Photo above: Car…

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Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on March 25 2019.

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Written by John Husing on March 25 2019.

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Written by Jay Handal on March 25 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on March 21 2019.

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Written by Emily Moon on March 21 2019.

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Written by Dennis P. Zine on March 21 2019.

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Written by Tony Butka on March 21 2019.

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Written by The Times Editorial Board on March 21 2019.

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