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A thrilling aspect of this election cycle is that practically every day I get email from either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Never before have I had this sort of intimacy with an American President and an international celebrity.
Just this afternoon Bill took time out from the campaign to send me the following note:

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’ve read about it a number of times but I don’t know that I’ve ever blogged about it.
The It in question is the Challenger study by the very bright Ulric Neisser.
Neisser, who is a scholar specializing in memory, had his students in 1986 record their memories of the Challenger explosion - he asked them to […]

Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my […]

By Troy Williams
“Post-gay” is the new queer. And like it or not, a new generation is giving the terms “gay” and “lesbian” an ontological reboot. Post-gay is the forward concept that sexual orientation no longer comprises the totality of identity. Sexuality is now rapidly evolving as an integrated aspect of our larger selves. This […]

Author Madeleine L’Engle died last week - I read about it but couldn’t bring myself to blog about it.
From her obit.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial gift may be made to Crosswicks Foundation, Ltd, 924 West End Ave, apt 95, New York, New York, 10025. This is just an option, and we encourage you to […]

Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 24 August 2007
It is as though I’m back as an analyst at the CIA, trying to estimate the chances of an attack […]

This post was originally titled “The Speech That Got JFK Bumped Off” until OneUtah Author Richard Warnick set me straight.
Richard, you are right. I’ve been taken. I know realize People have been quoting parts of that speech out of context for a variety of purposes forever.
Thanks for setting me straight.

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WOW! Watch this movie. (Apparently, YouTube keeps taking it down, but Google Video has it up. Hmm)
Zietgeist
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Apparently, this is the hot new subject at the water cooler.
Finally, a masterfuly-done full length film on this subject.
I think we will be hearing more about this soon.