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Now feel better about not feeling better! Thpppt.

The Bright Side of Being Blue: Depression as an Adaptation for Analyzing Complex Problems
Abstract: Depression is the primary emotional condition for which help is sought. Depressed people often report persistent rumination, which involves analysis, and complex social problems ( Read more... )

44 Inch Chest has the most depressingly obscene language of any movie I’ve ever sat through. Normally obscenity just flies right past me (I thought Deadwood was hilarious) but this was just sickening. I couldn’t make it past half an hour. Avoid this film.

Problem: there is no nicely typeset version of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy In America available for free.

Solution: LyX 2.0 incorporating XeTeX, allowing access to every font on the system, is the answer to quality typesetting of freely available books. I have done the first few chapters and cleaned up some of the quotation marks, dashes and ( Read more... )

Ein ſchönes Beiſpiel der deutscher Kurrentſchrift vom wikipedia.de:

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Here is what has happened to our deficit and our tax revenues through the reign of the House of Pelosi, 2007-2011. Observe the deficit more than double in 2008 from less than $0.5 trillion to over $1 trillion, then hit $1.8 trillion in 2009. I’m still waiting for the total for 2010.


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The house I bought in 1999 is in major disrepair and teetering on the edge of condemnation. I’ve not been able to afford to maintain it, and I have essentially spent the last decade of my life putting my own needs behind cleaning up other people’s messes. The way forward is not very clear. I am resolved one way or another to never infect another ( Read more... )

“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it.”

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