First, given that you have had no intimacy since the time you were raped, you have no experience of such acts except in a way that is violent and unexpected. This lack of experience has left you with two issues: a lack of sexual experience of a positive and nurturing kind and an avoidance of [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
What sorts of mental stability cases work in the media?
A woman who went missing from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico might have jumped overboard. Seitz had “previous emotional issues,” yet there were no outward signs of distress while on the seven-night cruise from Miami, her family said in a statement given to two Florida newspapers where she had previously worked. The [...]
Why does Hollywood hate the wholesome?
“Revolutionary Road,” based on Richard Yates’s 1961 novel of the same name, is the latest entry in a long stream of art that portrays the American suburbs as the physical correlative to spiritual and mental death. The reflexive reverence for “Revolutionary Road” is a testament to the degree to which antisuburban sentiment is one of [...]
Huntington’s warning
Today, this blog is basically a links list. Three possible American futures beckoned, Huntington said: cosmopolitan, imperial and national. In the first, the world remakes America, and globalization and multiculturalism trump national identity. In the second, America remakes the world: Unchallenged by a rival superpower, America would attempt to reshape the world according to its [...]
Give to ‘minority-led’ charities, or else.
Welcome to the latest trend in racial extortion. “No one can convince me that United Way provides better service directly to minorities than a minority-led organization,” [an extorter] told us recently. “We’re in the trenches. There is no way that [nonminorities] can connect and have more traction and effect than organizations with leaders who live [...]
Obama campaing to share voter personal data
What a great, non-corrupt, non-scheming fellow we just elected. According to Technology Review, the Democratic National Committee acquired some 223 million pieces of data on potential voters in the final two months before the election. The Obama administration could use its massive trove of information for other, more nefarious purposes. “It turns out that the [...]
Majority of bloggers clueless
I had higher hopes for this article, but: The majority of people starting up a blog have absolutely no idea how to use the content management systems that allow them to update their site, a fake new study has found. RiverScrap More likely: The majority of people who are currently blogging have never served in [...]
Small groups control reality by pretending objectivity
Wales decided to run a simple study to find out: he counted who made the most edits to the site. “I expected to find something like an 80-20 rule: 80% of the work being done by 20% of the users, just because that seems to come up a lot. But it’s actually much, much tighter [...]
Why Iraq got taken out
There’s a huge anti-neocon trend going on now. Bush and his neocon allies in the media were strong defenders of Israel, but even more, political pragmatists: if you don’t put control of a region in the hands of friendlies, it goes to the unfriendlies. Saddam Hussein has paid out thousands of dollars to families of [...]
Some sanity prevails in Scotland
Support is growing for controversial plans to reintroduce several feared and deadly mammals to the Scottish Highlands. Although bears were hunted to extinction in Britain 900 years ago, if proponents of a new ‘rewilding’ initiative get their way the carnivorous beasts could soon roam the countryside once again. They would be joined by large numbers [...]
