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You saw a couple in an intimate pose, right? Interestingly, research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated [...]

In her new book, The Female Brain, reviewed here in Newsweek, neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine argues that women’s brains are so different from men’s that they actually perceive the world differently than men.
“For example,” she says, “different levels of estrogen, cortisol and dopamine,, can cause a female to be more stressed by emotional conflict than her [...]

I’m off world on the home planet- I’ve gone fishin’ until July 31. Meanwhile, guest blogger Ella Bored will upload a few dispatches. If you haven’t already, please visit the lead post at the top of this page and critique my media consumption list for Weirdo Academy.
For now, enjoy the following dispatch from Jesus’ General:

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Speaking of Dada, here’s some random text generated by spam emails I’ve gotten lately:
was sick and he had gone for the doctor. Apologized for being late. Well, we
learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that’s got nothing to do
official–sources have led me to believe that an inspection [...]

I meant to write about A Scanner Darkly sooner, but was precluded by the war no one wants to call a war. Hmmmm, Kids will be kids (with AK-47s and rocket launchers no less). It’s hard to write about this film without spoiling it, but suffice to say, drugs and police states make great partners. [...]

I saw this today in the New York Post. I take it they are not writing love letters. I’m speechless.

From the AP: Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.

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Update: an artist blog from Beirut.
“When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled,” African proverb
Tuesday US Ambassador John Bolton said civilians killed by the Israelis are not the moral equivalent to civilians killed by terrorists. As I mentioned in previous posts, we really have devolved to the worse sociopathic tendencies of the Aztecs when they [...]

The following is in response to this post, “A Quandary and Request.”
As mentioned, it’s still a mystery to me what makes a freak (nature or nurture), and if it’s possible to impart the various “a-ha” experiences that cultural artifacts leave us with. But there is no doubt that certain great works are doorways to deeper [...]

NOTICE: This blog entry requires the full participation of all blogdisease readers. Please read to the end. Don’t make me beg you, please!
Update: I’ve decided to focus on this post all this week to encourage maximum participation (I’m hoping for at least ten comments). I’ll be posting in the comments as ideas arise. FYI, speaking [...]

As a barer of the punk torch, it is my duty to inform you all of some grim news. According to a NYT article, neo-Nazis and skinheads are infiltrating the military. This is an old story (it has been an ongoing issue), but it’s a reminder of the tight relationship between war and racism, and [...]

“I’m an idle and I ride the bus,” Billy Idle quoted when he was the singer for Generation X

“You’ll find that empty vessels make the most sound,” Johnny Rotten
Rock stars are a certain species, a subset of society that are allowed to be rich, diseased drug addicts and look as if they entered from an [...]

Few people know that I’m a huge baseball fan. Having grown up a few miles form Dodger Stadium, in the ’70s baseball was my home away from home. Unfortunately, Major League Baseball aligns itself too closely with a superficial concept of patriotism, succumbing to mindless rituals of Stalinistic spectacle as it bends over backwards to [...]

What makes a freak? As a love child of the Sixties birthed in the City of Angels, I feel a certain affinity for that hybrid place of rocket science, media, lowriders and Utopian imagination that has come to define my own particular madness. Thus I was deeply moved by a recent reading in Williamsburg by [...]