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I’m having an extremely difficult time posting today. I just can’t seem to think clearly. I don’t know what’s up with that.
I’m avoiding the gym tonight. I know it’s lame excuse but it’s always so crowded on Mondays it’s almost not worth going. I know it’s a lame excuse.
Anyway, [...]

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This is pretty unprecedented. No president in modern times is so widely hated by Americans.
Few media are reporting this landmark event. Here are a few you can trust.
ThinkProgress, HuffintonPost

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the more famous pscyhology experiments (another is the Milgram experiment) - it revealed an alarming ability of people previously deemed “normal” to engage in shocking, abusive, cruel behavior but also that similar persons would submit to that abusive behavior.
The SPE was planned and conducted at Standford University in [...]

I thought it was odd that Ken B posted a comment about global warming in response to my post about the systemic dishonesty of creationists. I wonder if maybe there are connections between the dishonest means and methods of creationists and those who deny global warming. I haven’t really looked much at the methods used [...]

I hope that we have learned something from the most barbaric century in history — the twentieth. I would like to see us overcome our tribal factions, and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalization.
Arthur C. Clarke

The discussion about modesty and sexuality has me thinking about the complicated ways in which male anxiety - specifically about sexuality - plays itself out. Calls for modesty and events chastity balls are often called for in general terms but directed at women in practice; they are equally often called for in specifically gendered [...]

You write something, post it, a few days later you move on and you basically forget it.  Then someday, often months later, someone brings it up again - sometimes even the person about whom you wrote.  It’s my favorite weird and wild thing about the internet.
Case in point, this morning while checking comments, I found a [...]

Years ago, my sister was working at a hotel in Park City during a conference of Oncologists and Cancer Researchers. As she told it at the time, doctor after doctor, researcher after researcher, would walk up to the door labelled “Pull” and begin pushing. Some of them would grab the handles, shake the [...]

Hugo is up to his old tricks - offering a brilliant and insightful post in which he writes:
We can experience real grief over a choice we’ve made while being immensely grateful to have had that choice in the first place. Divorce is, in this instance, similar to abortion. No one has sex saying “Gosh, I [...]

I’ve been thinking for a long about the issue of sexism in Utah politics. Jenny Wilson rightly pointed out that she was asked questions that none of her male counterparts were asked during the Mayor’s race. At the same time, Gayle Ruzicka is incredibly influential in Utah politics - sure, she’s nasty and [...]

Over the weekend, I read a fascinating book - Frans De Waal’s, Our Inner Ape. De Waal, one of the few primatologists to really study bonobo’s in depth, argues in the book that humans, chimps and bonobos are extremely closely related and that studying the behavior of all three species leads to a [...]