From my favorite satirist Mark Morford. How To Endure Disaster Fatigue – Too much death and catastrophe and war? Spirit overloaded? It’s tempting, it’s understandable, to want to block it all out, to take only small doses of the horrors of the planet and shun the rest like a Republican shuns poor people. The world often careens at us hot and fast and mean, and when the atrocities pile up our systems often automatically go into shock — they want…
This one cracks me up. My dissertation was a discourse analysis of how the virus is imagined in contemporary fiction. Your Fortune Is Support bacteria — it’s the only culture some people have! The Wacky Fortune Cookie Generator
Very validating, but I’m beginning to believe that I should have gone to law school. You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy) You’re a great thinker and a true philosopher. You’d make a talented professor or writer. What Advanced Degree Should You Get?
Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Free association is described as a “psychoanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” I say:: you think… Quirk:: quibble Crystal:: clarity Pet Peeve:: complain Cuban:: cigar Breasts:: curve Whispers:: soft and low Complicated:: tangle Promise me:: nothing Murder:: malice Filament:: passage
This looks about right, except that I would rate my fashion geekiness at moderate. Your Geek Profile: Academic Geekiness: Highest Internet Geekiness: High SciFi Geekiness: Moderate Fashion Geekiness: Low Movie Geekiness: Low Music Geekiness: Low Gamer Geekiness: None Geekiness in Love: None General Geekiness: None How Geeky Are You?
Read this excellent article, which details the ways in which the main components of a police state have already been put into place in the USA. The Police State Is Closer Than You Think – by Paul Craig Roberts, Oct. 8, 2005. Dr. Roberts is John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and a former assistant secretary of the…