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that's great. you're an idiot.

Reversal theory has been at the fore of my mind since i read about it in my Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought over the weekend. At play, one welcomes higher levels of arousal/excitement/whatever you want to call it, and at rest, these higher levels cause anxiety/stress/whatever you want to call it. So ( Read more... )

I love this debate, but especially the last expert, Richard Miller. Finally, we have a winner. It's like global warming, exactly. Footnotes and studies are no longer anything more than jewelery.

What kind of country do we live in if i can't express my displeasure with not being able to pick a favorite yogurt flavor without being labeled elitist.

Last week, the McCain campaign's case against Barack Obama went something like this: He's irresponsible when it comes to Iraq, naive when it comes to Iran, and a big-government liberal when it comes to the economy. But now Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has more or less endorsed Obama's plan to withdraw from Iraq, forcing McCain to argue that ( Read more... )

I'm sorry to be so forthright Grandma, but please don't send me stuff like this. First, I have an Hispanic girlfriend. Second, different immigrant groups have been scapegoats for all of American history, including your ancestors (if you were always Catholic, especially your ancestors). I am not easily offended, but it's offensive to me in more ( Read more... )

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Our neighborhood, Alto Palermo, had a solidly bourgeois character, with modern high-rises overlooking the park, and was known as Barrio Freud for the number of psychoanalysts practicing there. It is widely believed that Argentina has more analysts per capita than any other country in the world. In the same way that every middle-class family has a ( Read more... )