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I’ve blogged before about the experience of growing up at the healthy sibling of a sick child. Over the years I’ve known other people who had the same experience.
A former aquaintance of mine talked about her experience of being sent to live with relatives when her sibling was seriously ill and how her [...]

In Mistakes were made (but not by me) , Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson discuss the psychological process of self justification as it relates to initiation.
In particular, they cite a study in which students, to join a conversation, had to go through an initiation process; for one group it was relatively easy, for [...]

In his commentary on the film Kinsey, Bill Condon quotes a Kinsey biographer who wrote “America is most the licentious culture since Rome and the most puritan culture ever invented.” Condon muses that these two poles in American culture seem to alternate between periods of being quiescent and periods of being active - in [...]

Figleaf at the not always safe for work Real Adult Sex had this to say:
Although it’s been many years since I was a member I grew up in that church. My youngest brother’s ashes are there. The last time I went, last year, my father introduced me around, so proud that I’d come back. [...]

Okay, so this pathetic whack job shoots up a Unitarian church and they interview someone who knows him and she says:
“He never went anywhere. He never had anybody over. Just, it was really quiet. He rode a motorcycle and you know he would go out on the weekends on his motorcycle, but other than that, [...]

The US has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the world. In 2004. nearly half the eligible voters stayed at home rather than voting. That’s a bad thing. However, and I suspect there is a connection, a large portion of eligible voters are politely called “low information voters.” These [...]

We’ve had a lot of high level discussion around here the last few days and that’s a good thing. I’ve got lots of different ideas bubbling around my brain and since I can’t pick one of them . . .
After a long interim of not doing it, I’ve gotten back into lap swimming as [...]

Anybody who is over a hundred years old, and as bewildered as I am about why a cover for “The New Yorker” has caused a controversy among Barack Obama supporters and even evades a decent comment from Obama himself, might get a kick out of this post. This cover, which portrays Obama dressed in Muslim [...]

Ed Brayton has a great post The Athiests are Coming, the Atheists are Coming! up at his place. In it, he points out a tendency among at least some conservative Christian writes for:
vaguely hysterical writings that get his credulous followers without ever actually identifying what they should feel threatened by, as brilliantly displayed in [...]

PZ Myers was righteously and correctly offended at a nonsense nonissue kerfuffle over a student “stealing” and “holding hostage” a communion wafer. The story goes something like this: the student went to Catholic communion service, didn’t eat the wafer immediately, was physically assaulted by someone trying to force him to eat the wafer [...]

As a gesture of thanks to JD Berger for his dedication to the National Conversation and commitment to getting as many guns out there as possible, I have purchased, on behalf OneUtah’s great authors, “Top Spot” on JD Berger’s “The Real Gun Guys.”
For $5 bucks, even if he breaks the agreement (*and keeps my money) [...]

Live their lives as if it is someone else’s job to make them happy and listen to them cry when they’re not.