There are people dying from hunger in this world, and these people are waxing and spray tanning their 10 year old daughter.
I was not a big fan of Norman Mailer. If you had asked me about it, I would probably said that he was a narcissistic twerp who yelled and people tend to pay attention to other people who yell. I didn’t think he had a lot to say about anything. I’m not a big reader [...]
Lisa Belkin writes about another cheating politician. It is tempting, on this day of love and lust, to think we’ve found some answers in the tale of Iris Robinson — yes, Mrs. Robinson — the 60-year-old member of Parliament whose husband is the first minister of Northern Ireland. Last month the BBC revealed her affair [...]
Bill Gates was at TED and got his rant on. Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED speech Friday. He told those gathered at the conference that “What we’re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system… So we need energy miracles.” Bill, your company [...]
I have started to see the world through a narcissism detection filter. I think the proper model for studying human behavior is one which assesses behavior in terms of narcissism. Here is an example: Julie Powell is a published author who wrote a book about cooking and other things and it was turned into a [...]
Robin Cook may be trying to drum up business for a book he wrote in 1995, but he can sure scare the hell out of me this year. But that is not the case with another flu subspecies that originally appeared in 2006 and which is now slowly spreading from Southeast Asia, particularly in its [...]
Junk DNA is the stuff in our genome that doesn’t seem to do much. From Slashdot: A group of scientists led by Nitya Venkataraman began with the knowledge that Old World monkeys have a built-in immunity to HIV: a protein that can prevent HIV from entering cell walls and starting an infection. They examined the [...]
Slate has a good article about Utah and the Mormon church. What’s the matter with Utah? The most Republican state in the nation is drifting to the left. In the last few months, Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican and a practicing Mormon, has come out in favor of civil unions for gays and repeated his [...]
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I was dreaming and I heard a voice say clearly to me, “Turn on the light”. I awoke with a start. I tried to lie still and figure out where I was. Bed. Which bed? I tried to map the shadows I could see to the dream I had been having. My bed. As I [...]