Monday, May 21, 2007

Testosterone



It is all about control, excessive testosterone develops a greater need for control over your environment ie. you have a greater competitive attitude to all elements with in your environment, human and otherwise. Angry faces are there because you are creating them, forcing a change in the emotions of others around you and specifically forcing them to adopt negative unhealthy emotions and stealing away their ability to control their mental state ie. challenging them and winning.

...but isn't this classic Alpha behavior? Do the psychologists even study chimps and gorillas any more? If your underling (or a potential threat to your rule) only briefly shows an anger face but not long enough to be perceived as a threat, that means you 'won' the confrontation and have established your superiority in the heirarchy. Of course, with chimps it's actually the ones that stay on the fringes and avoid the Alpha (we'll call them Chimp Geeks) that have the most sex with the females, as the Alpha & underlings are too busy and stressed about staying on the top o' the heap...

http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/05/15/2026249.shtml




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2007 LA Times Festival of Books

Great coverage by CSPAN2 of the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books...

State of the Union Panel

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Description: From a LA Times Festival of Books, a panel on domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy featuring: Amy Goodman ("Static"), Douglas Kmiec ("The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution"), Greg Palast ("Armed Madhouse"), and Doug Wilson ("Getting America Right"). The discussion is moderated by Larry Mantle.

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=8267&schedID=488


Age of Spin Panel

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Description: From the LA Times Festival of Books, a panel on political spin featuring: Frank Luntz ("Words That Work"), Joe Conason ("It Can Happen Here"), David Goodman ("Static"), and Michael Isikoff ("Hubris"). The panel is moderated by John Powers.

http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=8265&schedID=488


Panel Discussion on Religion: The Politics of Faith

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  • Reza Aslan, "No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam"
  • Chris Hedges, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America"
  • Jack Miles, "Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God & God: A Biography"
  • Moderator: Jonathan Kirsch

Panel Discussion on Divided We Stand:
Facing Tough Issues

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  • Douglas Brinkley, "The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast"
  • Edward Humes, "Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul"
  • Eyal Press, "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America"
  • Krista Tippett, "Speaking of Faith"
  • Moderator: Matt Miller

Panel Discussion on Current Interest:
Profiles in Terror

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  • Jeffrey Goldberg, "Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide"
  • Brian Michael Jenkins, "Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves"
  • Terry McDermott, "The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It"
  • Lawrence Wright, "The Looming Tower"
  • Moderator: Leo Braudy

Panel Discussion on Biography: 20th
Century Lives

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  • Anthony Arthur, "Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair"
  • Neal Gabler, "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination"
  • Walter Isaacson, "Einstein: His Life and Universe"
  • Harold Zellman, "The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship"
  • Moderator: A. Scott Berg

LIVE Religion & Culture Panel

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Description: Book TV presents LIVE coverage of the LA Times Festival of Books. At 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT, a panel on the mixing of religion and culture featuring: Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great"), Zachary Karabell ("Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence"), and Jonathan Kirsch ("A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization"). The panel is moderated by Thane Rosenbaum.


LIVE Iraq Panel

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Description: Book TV presents LIVE coverage
of the LA Times Festival of Books. At 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT, a panel on the Iraq
War featuring: William Langewiesche ("The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear
Poor"), T. Christian Miller ("Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and
Corporate Greed in Iraq"), Robert Scheer ("Playing President: My Relationships
with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare
Me for George W. Bush" & "The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq").
The panel is moderated by Nancy Snow.


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Sunday, October 15, 2006

A MODERN MAN





A MODERN MAN


I'm a modern man,
digital and smoke-free;
a man for the millennium.

A diversified, multi-cultural,
post-modern deconstructionist;
politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect.

I've been uplinked and downloaded,
I've been inputted and outsourced.
I know the upside of downsizing,
I know the downside of upgrading.

I'm a high-tech low-life.
A cutting-edge, state-of-the-art,
bi-coastal multi-tasker,
and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.

I'm new-wave, but I'm old-school;
and my inner child is outward-bound.

I'm a hot-wired, heat-seeking,
warm-hearted cool customer;
voice-activated and bio-degradable.

I interface with my database;
my database is in cyberspace;
so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive,
and from time to time I'm radioactive.

Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve,
ridin' the wave, dodgin' the bullet,
pushin' the envelope.

I'm on point, on task, on message,
and off drugs.

I've got no need for coke and speed;
I've got no urge to binge and purge.

I'm in the moment, on the edge,
over the top, but under the radar.

A high-concept, low-profile,
medium-range ballistic missionary.

A street-wise smart bomb.
A top-gun bottom-feeder.

I wear power ties, I tell power lies,
I take power naps, I run victory laps.

I'm a totally ongoing, big-foot, slam-dunk
rainmaker with a pro-active outreach.

A raging workaholic, a working rageaholic;
out of rehab and in denial.

I've got a personal trainer,
a personal shopper,
a personal assistant,
and a personal agenda.

You can't shut me up;
you can't dumb me down.
'Cause I'm tireless, and I'm wireless.
I'm an alpha-male on beta-blockers.

I'm a non-believer,
I'm an over-achiever;
Laid-back and fashion-forward.
Up-front, down-home;
low-rent, high-maintenance.

I'm super-sized, long-lasting,
high-definition, fast-acting,
oven-ready and built to last.

A hands-on, footloose, knee-jerk head case;
prematurely post-traumatic,
and I have a love child who sends me hate-mail.

But I'm feeling, I'm caring,
I'm healing, I'm sharing.
A supportive, bonding, nurturing
primary-care giver.

My output is down, but my income is up.
I take a short position on the long bond,
and my revenue stream has its own cash flow.

I read junk mail, I eat junk food,
I buy junk bonds, I watch trash sports.

I'm gender-specific, capital-intensive,
user-friendly and lactose-intolerant.

I like rough sex; I like tough love.
I use the f-word in my e-mail.
And the software on my hard drive
is hard-coreā€”no soft porn.

I bought a microwave at a mini-mall.
I bought a mini-van at a mega-store.
I eat fast food in the slow lane.
I'm toll-free, bite-size, ready-to-wear,
and I come in all sizes.

A fully equipped, factory-authorized,
hospital-tested, clinically proven,
scientifically formulated medical miracle.

I've been pre-washed, pre-cooked, pre-heated,
pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged,
post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped
and vacuum-packed.

And . . . I have unlimited broadband capacity.

I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal.
Lean and mean.
Cocked, locked and ready to rock;
rough, tough and hard to bluff.

I take it slow, I go with the flow;
I ride with the tide, I've got glide in my stride.

Drivin' and movin', sailin' and spinnin';
jivin' and groovin', wailin' and winnin'.

I don't snooze, so I don't lose.
I keep the pedal to the metal
and the rubber on the road.
I party hearty, and lunchtime is crunch time.

I'm hangin' in, there ain't no doubt;
and I'm hangin' tough.
Over and out.

George Carlin

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

hot dog

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

identity






writings on the wall