For use when I really don’t have time to figure out to what category the post should belong.
(RS) A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.
I always thought Conservatives were cowards!
I watched the beginning of “Batman Returns” and just realized that Paul Ruben has a cameo as the Penguin’s father.
I managed to get my lawn mowed just in time today. It has just started pouring outside! It does put a crimp on my going for Leg 11 of the Tour De Rook.
If you could see my face, it would have a sad on. A really big sad.
Just installed Firefox for Android on my Nook! Looks to be working just fine. Oh yeah. Very fine. I’m happy now!
Being a writer just means knowing what we don’t know and failing to find the words to describe what we don’t know!
And I am updating my Movable Type installation on my Rook’s Rant server. I am hoping that clears up some loading issues. If it works, I might be resuming political rantings over there.
And yes, now I have “Over There” ear-worming me into insanity.
Well, first off – laundry. Drying my bedding except my comforter now. The comforter and two towels are in the washing machine.
I am contemplating doing some Mindfulness Meditation as I await the dryer’s buzzer. I believe a good primer for Mindfulness Meditation is “Wherever You Go There You Are” by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Maybe around noon I will take another bike ride. Weather.com and NOAA are forecasting sunny skies. I will see.
Oh, and I am planning on cleaning the rest of the house; vacuuming and mopping.
And then, when all that is said and done, I plan on overthrowing Western Civilization as we know it, replacing it with a John Cole utopia.
Now get off my damn lawn you rotten kids!
Yeah, I know. I know. I said yesterday that I would write a post about my health. Well, it is now today (yesterday’s tomorrow, in case anyone is interested) and I am finally getting around to another post about my health.
Over the years I have struggled with a lot of physical problems. If I had to take a guess, I would say part of it was the result of years of stress working at Cochran Center (a now defunct chemical dependency program) under a supervisor who was beyond toxic as well as some accidents and the lack of health insurance at various times in my life over the last 8 years. Normally I do not write about work, but this was from years ago, so I think it is safe to write about the horrible conditions I worked under back then.
And it is stories like this that make me embarrassed for the human race.
(Today) A tea kettle that bears a potential resemblance to Adolf Hitler has landed J.C. Penney in hot water.
A California billboard advertising a Michael Graves-designed kettle for sale at the store has some wondering whether they are being saluted by the Nazi dictator instead of waiting for tea to heat up.
The billboard, first noticed by Reddit users near the 405 freeway in Culver City, had readers questioning whether the similarity was just a coincidence.
On Tuesday the company made it clear that any resemblance is completely “unintentional,” repeatedly tweeting the clarification at those curious about a Hitler connection.
“If we had designed it to look like something, we would have gone with a snowman or something fun,” the store tweeted at numerous followers.
Hat Tip to Mustang Bobby.
Chris Matthew’s programming. I love Obama.I hate Obama. I love Obama. I hate Obama. I love Obama. Mostly now I hate Obama.
— Just Hussein Jo (@desertcronenm) May 28, 2013