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Chapter Four of Jeff Warren’s illuminating Head Trip, he pays a visit to Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a clinical psychiatrist and contemporary of the late, Milton Erickson, in order to experience a hypnotic trance. Part of what brings Warren to Spiegel’s office is the search for a desire to find and understand a reliable standard [...]

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I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I’ve heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And [...]

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 Tim Boucher’s got a new micro-post up in regards to the old saw that goes “Power Corrupts.  Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”
His statement illuminates a different, more positive perspective on these things:
Power doesn’t corrupt. It’s people making stupid choices and letting themselves be lead around by the nose which corrupts them. What’s a stupid choice? Something [...]

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The middle class is supposed to be disconnected at the neck.
They’re the buffer between the slavemasters and the class of people the slavemasters fear. Poor people: the lumpen proles– those with nothing to lose and everything to gain from an end to slavery.
A middle class that was more in its body would be less [...]

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I didn’t want to write about this stuff again because I’m not sure that it’s helpful. But, as far as I see it, it’s a reality that is going on.
At least Ty Brown is beginning to see this, albeit from his own somewhat different angle.
Britney has been propped up as a representation of a [...]

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I’m glad some folks at least are picking up on the fact that Bhutto, in one of her last interviews, mentioned the death of Osama Bin Laden. In particular, I’m glad this guy’s doing it.
From JAZZ from HELL:
And right on cue, shortly after former Pakistani premier Bhutto’s own slaying, two key al-Qaeda news items [...]

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Perhaps the whole distraction-story about steroid use in professional sports is even less about the drugs than I supposed. Perhaps, it’s all about surveillance–of the doped athletes and the duped fans alike.
Microchips anyone?
The entire spectacle surrounding Barry Bonds and, more recently, Roger Clemens in particular and steroid/human-growth hormone use in general among professional athletes [...]

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So, some folks are saying that Willy Loman, who made the original posting about the proposed legislation, S 1959, is crying wolf. They say that all S 1959 does is set up a commission to study the issue of “homegrown radicalization,” which the document seems to straight away conflate with “homegrown terrorism” and “homegrown [...]

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Ah, we arrive at another Turkey-Day. In the TV-less world I reside in most of my hours, that still means spending time with family, connecting with each other, whether we’re talking, eating or simply silently sitting in the same room reading different books. But what a great opportunity to see oneself and one’s [...]

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