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  • I’ve met Jack Caputo a number of times. Great guy. I highly recommend watching this interview. Continue reading

  • Emotions Vocabulary Chart

    Hardly exhaustive, but certainly handy.  Sheet-for-Emotions-791×1024.jpg (791×1024). Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 4

    Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading

  • Detaching-Letting Go-Releasing Yourself

    A nice blog entry from over at Miati Notes on Toxic Relationships that certainly goes to the heart of what I have been feeling over the last few days. As listening to Frank Herbert’s Dune this morning reminded me of… Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 3

    These past weeks since my brother’s death, fear has hunted me. Or better, I have hunted myself… for I have not been afeared of what might actually do me harm right now or even partially down the line of life.… Continue reading

  • Denton Drilling: Draft ordinance needs overhaul

    Denton, Texas’ draft ordinance concerning gas drilling gets an F from local citizens. Time for a do over. Last night, about forty dedicated citizens gathered to review the draft gas drilling ordinance and generate ideas for how to improve it.… Continue reading

  • Privacy Rights Myth: Limitations on the 4th Amendment and Illegal Search and Seizure | Learnist

    The Hunted and Hated is a short film featuring recordings of police intimidation and brutality. This film includes current and former police who talk at length about the systemic abuse of stop and frisk for the purposes of showing increasing… Continue reading

  • Human “Enhancement” vs Environmental Reformation

    When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall. The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D… Continue reading

  • Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming – NYTimes.com

    Mr. President, your prep for the next debate need not consist of anything more than learning to pronounce three words: “Governor, you’re lying.” via Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming – NYTimes.com. Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 2

    Frustrated. Nervous. Confused. Diseased. Disordered. Cloudy day and foggy mood although I do not think it a direct correlation: not then seasonal activity disorder. Melancholy abounds into my now/here; she empassions me darkly. Boundary situation of pain: Toes I sprained… Continue reading