http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/
---Steve
Monday, June 02, 2014
Elliot O. Rodger’s Killings in California Followed Years of Withdrawal - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/us/elliot-rodger-killings-in-california-followed-years-of-withdrawal.html?hp&_r=2
It is almost impossible to tell if a person struggling with any mental disorder might ever turn violent; the vast majority never do, even those who make threats and preparations to do so.
---Steve
It is almost impossible to tell if a person struggling with any mental disorder might ever turn violent; the vast majority never do, even those who make threats and preparations to do so.
---Steve
Sunday, June 01, 2014
Blog | jlake.com - Part 35
http://www.jlake.com/blog/page/35/
some days the hamster wheel in my head breaks loose and rattles down the highway, carrying me with it screaming all the way.
---Steve
some days the hamster wheel in my head breaks loose and rattles down the highway, carrying me with it screaming all the way.
---Steve
Blog | jlake.com - Part 32
While I've had MRIs before, I've never had a brain MRI before. If you've never seen an MRI machine, rest assured that they are terrible traps for the claustrophobic or the circumferentially enhanced (I fall into that latter category myself). And frankly, much time spent in an MRI would drive anyone to claustrophobia. And they are noisy. Like Anvil Chorus noisy. Like sticking your head in a jet engine noisy. Something on the order of 125 dB clanging right next to your ears for however long you're in there.
I was handed earplugs. A mask was put over my entire head that looked sort of like a cross between the Alien facehugger and something Dumas wrote about, rendered in the bland, taupe, pebble-finished plastic so beloved of technology designers. Pads were inserted around my head, after a brief discussion of how surprisingly large my skull is.
I then spent forty-five minutes in the tube.
Lately I've been meditating in the mornings. As a formal practice, I mean, not the lie-in-bed-and-groan-about-morning meditation that we all indulge in from time to time. So I meditated inside the MRI tube for forty-five minutes. Which is about like trying to meditate on the flight line of an aircraft carrier. On the plus side, the tech later reported that I held amazingly still, which helped them get good images as quickly as possible. On the minus side, I had my head in an MRI tube for forty-five minutes.
---SteveBlog | jlake.com - Part 23
I rail constantly against the influence of religion in politics and culture. Likewise I rail against religious hypocrisy, bad acts, harm to others outside the faith, and sheer cruelty perpetrated under the cloak of religious privilege.
What I do not deliberately do is criticize the tenets of faith. Regardless of my personal opinion of specific religious beliefs, about which I am in fact a deeply cynical bastard, it's not for me to comment in this public frame on theology, or what happens behind the doors of church, temple or mosque, or the hearts and minds of believers. I really am a First Amendment absolutist when it comes to protection of free religion. Especially religions that trouble me profoundly.
I am also profoundly anti-majoritarian on this question, which I suspect sometimes comes across as a more simplistic and hostile opposition to American Christianity. But religious freedom is one of the places in our society most susceptible to the tyranny of the majority.
No religion is safe when any religion can dictate public policy, law and education. It's that simple. Hence my dictum that freedom of religion means freedom from religion.
When I say that, it is not a call for deconversion. It's a call for a secular state where all faith is equally protected, and no faith at all is just as protected.
That's what I believe about what you believe. That you have an absolute right to believe it, and that you have absolutely no right to impose your beliefs on others through the public instrumentalities of government, law and public education. Any more than any one else has the right to impose their beliefs on you. I think Christians call it the Golden Rule.
Pretty simple, really.
---Steve
[culture] The 1% and hard work | jlake.com
---SteveSomeone who believes the 1% are wealthier because they work harder has never met a migrant farm worker, a janitor or a single mother.
Blog | jlake.com - Part 9
After Lisa came home, we tooled up and rented Ender's Game. Setting aside both my memories of the book and my feelings about OSC, it was a pretty good movie. A lot of the plot was forced, but then, that was kind of the point. With occasional clicks of the pause button for discussion,
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the_child---Steve
Blog | jlake.com - Part 8
http://www.jlake.com/blog/page/8/
If normal snoring can be likened to sawing wood, this was Godzilla tearing apart the lumberyard and being pissed about the splinters.
---Steve
If normal snoring can be likened to sawing wood, this was Godzilla tearing apart the lumberyard and being pissed about the splinters.
---Steve
Fuck Your Religious Beliefs, Sincerely: An Open Letter to Michele Bachmann
Soon To Be Former (Thank God) Congresswoman Michele Bachmann,
There are very few words that can accurately describe just what malady you have made yourself on the United States of America. You are a symptom of a great illness that has always managed to make life insufferable for one group or another. Americans it seems have always had to grapple with a group among their ranks that just can't keep their God out of everybody else's lives, and while some have been able to play the role of theologian-cum-politician with at least some grace and an empathetic ear, you are simply the card-carrying bigot of your time; the female George Wallace, and I'm sick and tired, madam, of having to genuflect to the First Amendment every time you let forth from your mouth hole with the kind of backwards, antiquated and just plain mean pabulum that you try to pass off as intellectual dialogue. So I'm going to call upon my own First Amendment privileges now, and while I harbor no delusions that this letter will reach your dead eyes, nor that it will be comprehended in that vacuum that rests upon your neck, but I write this letter on behalf of everyone who is fed up with God, Jesus and the Holy Scripture being used both as a cudgel to bludgeon people with, and as a shield against any criticism, no matter how justified or earned.
- See more at: http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/fuck-your-religious-beliefs-sincerely-an-open-letter-to-michele-bachmann/#sthash.LRRXH5nv.dpuf---Steve
Blog | jlake.com - Part 4
http://www.jlake.com/blog/page/4/
Last night I didn't just get a few postcards from my subconscious. I got a whole truckload 70mm CinemaScope reels shot on expired TechniColor film stock, complete with house posters and lobby standees.
---Steve
Last night I didn't just get a few postcards from my subconscious. I got a whole truckload 70mm CinemaScope reels shot on expired TechniColor film stock, complete with house posters and lobby standees.
---Steve
Slate: I Could Have Been Elliot Rodger
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
---Steve
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