Mom: Alex wants to go to graduate school for neuropsychology but he doesn’t know where to apply yet.
Me: Once he figures out what about neuro that he likes, it’ll be easier to narrow down the choices. Cognitive, ev-bio, comparative ..
Mom: I’ve noticed that you two have very similar interests.
Me: We are your kids.
Dad: That’s right! [...]
Supreme Court overturns District’s ban on handguns. After thirty years, residents of DC are allowed to have handguns in their homes. The Court declared that a complete ban is unconstitutional, but some gun restrictions are reasonable, e.g. barred from felons and the mentally ill, and at schools and government buildings. Machine guns are [...]
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Posted 27 June 2008
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Me: Finally back in Boston. Let’s get dinner.
Byrnes: Unfortunately the only food we can get at this hour is pizza or hot dogs.
Me: Sweetie, you know that I’m always up for some late night hot juicy sausage.
The Battle: Getting unhappy cat out from under the deck while it was raining.
The Outcome: Happier cat indoors and drying.
The Spoils: Freshly-washed clothes covered in mud, grass, rain, and cat hair.
CBS News Chief Correspondent Lara Logan on The Daily Show in a very open, honest interview about television news media today. She describes a phenomenon that Robert McChesney and John Nichols observed years ago.
More from McChesney and Nichols at the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform.
(via Deus Ex Malcontent)
Get the Books
Of Two Minds: An Anthroplogist Looks at American Psychiatry by T.M. Luhrmann
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial by Alison Bass
William Deresiewicz laments in the current issue of American Scholar how the elite institutions of academia—such as the Ivy League—do not prepare their students to interact with people who are not similarly educated. He writes that elite education produces entitlement, mediocrity, and cowardice—always focused on “playing by the rules” to get ahead. Other academic bloggers [...]
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
– Benjamin Franklin
Today I saw a license plate that reads “EMT-RN”. It was hilarious. Goes right up there with the minivan I saw a few years ago that had “DSM-IV” on its plates.
Book on McCain and his racist remarks to be released on July 4th. Titled Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters. I understand the bitterness that someone can have from a war, but racial slurs are not acceptable under any circumstances. But considering that McCain called his wife a cunt in 1992, [...]
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Posted 20 June 2008
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