If you haven’t read Kay Redfield Jamison’s “Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament” run out and get a copy. She is a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and is bipolar herself. “I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital […]
Into the Void
Back off, man, I'm co-creating my reality.
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Now THIS is a Knife!
Amazon.com: Victorinox-Swisschamp XAVT “BIG DADDY” Knife: Sports & Outdoors Hey, Girl Scout friends! Now THIS is a knife. Get one of these bad boys and you can throw away your tool chest, cutlery, fishing tackle box, and corkscrew. Oh, and fire your auto mechanic. It’s all there. I can’t help it, I love to window […]
Dysfunction and Censorship
Letter to a good Christian woman: I think we can all agree that consistantly objectifying women is not just wrong, it is dysfunctional. By “objectifying” I mean that the viewer isn’t concerned with the woman’s needs and desires but only with his own. This lack of empathy, when taken to extremes, is the hallmark of […]
Stone Him With Stones
Just in case anyone is still complaining that Islamists are violent, here’s something from the KJV bible. It’s pretty clear what a good Christian is supposed to do to non-Christians. Deuteronomy 13 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy […]
Mental Health Parity in the Bailout Boondoggle H. R. 1424
Here is the full text, and I suggest that everybody read this bill. It was pushed through with only a couple of days debate by lawyers who have little understanding of the workings of Wall Street or The Fed, and who have huge financial interest in the institutions that will benefit from it. To add insult to injury, they tacked a lot of pork barrel spending onto it to BRIBE Congress to agree to it.
Toeing the Party Line
David Brooks: The Class War Before Palin Over the past 15 years, the same argument has been heard from a thousand politicians and a hundred television and talk-radio jocks. The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, oversecularized denizens of the coasts. I think both parties have […]
Positive Deception
Positive deception is when you change the parameters so that you don’t have to lie. Throwing the ball easy to a little kid so that he succeeds and develops a good attitude toward the game. Giving every kid a trophy so they don’t get discouraged. Putting everyone in the school on the Honor Roll so […]
FEMA Concentration Camps
Rex 84 – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Exercises similar to Rex 84 happen regularly.[5] Plans for roundups of large numbers of persons in the United States in times of crisis are constructed during periods of increased political repression such as the Palmer Raids and the McCarthy Era. CIVIL SECURITY PLANNING Since WWII, the U.S. […]
Homework Excuse
I’m sorry, but I had an existential crisis last night and in a fit of Kafka-esque boredom I morphed into a centipede and ate my computer.
Thinking Machine 4: Chess Visualization
Thinking Machine 4: Play the game. I don’t have the patience for chess unless mentally enhanced by certain herbs. Until my local health food store starts selling it, I’m not going to be playing chess. Nonetheless, I found this site interesting. The picture above visualizes a computer opponent’s “thought” process as it examines series of […]
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