Dr_Evil_Mouse

Tempting, though the weather reports for Ottawa haven't sounded too promising. I might have to enjoy it vicariously through those blessed with cloudless skies.

Way to be born ! Happy birthday, Jay!

Eye floaters

Whaddya know, there is an "I" in "team" .

Just who he needs in his corner - bug-eyed sex addicts . On another note: from Naomi Wolf. Sweden's Serial Negligence

Giv'er!

Funny, though, how "hung like a unicorn" never really caught on.

) - Hitler just doesn't have the same sex-appeal as a unicorn, though, and that's frankly where the money is. Plus, what's the worst thing a unicorn has ever done? [scrubbing brain from previous question...]

Settle down, kids.

That one only works to tweak pre-adolescent girls. Still very effective, though. Freud never goes out of style.

Fair enough; I suppose if there were someone Manson respected enough not to see him/her suffer, that might be a way in, but it was also a sociopath that killed Gandhi, too (and whose affiliate organisation came to power in India nearly twenty years ago, which hasn't turned out so peachy). Still, not a bad idea for a lot of the time, imo. I'm reminded of the moment in the last Louis CK show where the dentist dopes him up and he has the dream where he talks bin Laden out of being a terrorist. Damn it, YouTube, where's my link!

At least the aliens will discover, amidst all the wreckage, that some people were trying.

I heartily endorse the points you have made, and the action in which your emoticon is engaged.

Good advice . Best part is that I finally sat down and figured out all the parts to "It", which felt really good. Except the Dave Clarke bits, of course.

The point is valid, but I have to say that Psychology Today is a bit of a rag, and I wouldn't trust them for good science. When I think "mentally ill", I tend to think of someone benign who has a hard time coping with the bullshit around them (of which there is a bewildering amount, and it stuns me sometimes to think about how most people deal with it). And fwiw, I'd have to say that some mentally ill people are just on some irretrievably bad paths, (by which I mean I can't imagine anyone being able to get them to be self-aware of their own badness), which is the only way I can "get" the category "bad people". I mean, to take something at hand, what do you do with the Tori Stafford story? Somebody'd have to be pretty fucked up to do something like that.

This thread inspired me to listen to Melville all day in the car today. Not on vinyl, however.

He's still got it . And it's nice to see that he still uses that favourite tagline of his - "Well, this isn't at all surprising...".

Or, conversely, good people? (I actually prefer Gandhi's way of framing it - there aren't bad people per se, just people locked into bad [i.e. violent, coercive, etc.] ways of doing things - for which a tweak of conscience is the best and only solution.)

Sounds like a Buddhist koan - the "original face before you were born". But by "society", do you mean parents? And what about the friends and strangers who do their best to teach us that we should be learning, improving ourselves, and making up our own minds about the things that affect us? It doesn't seem to me that our socialisation is all about control and repression.

Chomsky on Wikileaks

You're making me want to go back and read Adorno and Horkheimer again . I think they nailed it with the idea that identity is what enables us to be dominated, and that power is not so much something that we wield, but something that passes through us.

Closest thing I could find - serc There also seems to be something called SERK (Somatic Embryogenesis Receptor-Like Kinase), which pops up on pregnancy websites. Anything you'd like to share ?

Happy birthday!