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What kind of person seems to insist on torturing other people for political purposes and on blowing the heads of off animals for seemingly no reason at all?
Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
May 29th, 2009
May 9th, 2009
Lenore Skenazy, a writer not previously known to me, has captured my head and my heart. She understands statistics and risk, psychology, perception, and kids. She has her feet on the ground and her eyes open. Money quote from an interview in Slate (h/t Andrew Sullivan):
we’ve started to think of our kids as the [...]
September 18th, 2008
Category: Politics and Leadership, Psychology
Hoodathunkit: the trouble with conservatives is that they’re basically a bunch of scaredy-cat chicken cowardly milquetoasts! Dang! Sorta goes with sending other people’s kids to fight one’s wars…
Now if we only knew what a conservative is, we could kick some sand in their faces.
April 18th, 2008
As is well known, the Dutch have an extensive, pervasive, and very green bicycle habit. Big cities have four completely separate surface circulation systems with integrated signals (cars, pedestrians, trams, and bikes); tourists wandering on foot into the bike path get hit or yelled at. Bicycle parking is not a matter of a [...]
