Clear Pictures of How We Think

Clear Pictures of How We Think. This is just a bookmark for me to read this.

How to Fold a Shirt

How to Fold a Shirt. Only on the internet.

Hundreds of Iraqi Insurgents Killed

This story and others like it disturb me simply by the use of the word insurgent. I find a hard time thinking of the actual residents of Iraq who are opposing their occupation as insurgents. I mean it makes some sense, but in another sense the US were the insurgents, but they moved from the barn to the house and the rest of the residents are on the outside looking in - just like they were before. This is a not a well presented point, but the word insurgent has been bothering me so I just had to get it out.

Open Letter To The Democratic Party: How You Could Have Had My Vote

I find this post and comment chain very interesting. I was very glad to read it, because it does seem to have touched a nerve with many of the commenters. More interesting to me was the uneasy feeling that I got reading it. This was captured for me in the comment by Running Dog. Search for it in the rest of the comments. I find it to be even more compelling. Better written than what I would have said - something struck me as fearful or timid in the original post. Sort of being afraid to vote because of some feelings. That is my problem with the whole political process - too much emotion, not enough rational, logical thought. I think Kingsley gets it right for me.

Arafat's Mystery Illness

I think it may be AIDS. I have no reason to believe this other than the fact that it must be kept a mystery, so it must somehow be embarassing (in some sense, cultural or whatever).

The Rationals

I always end up as a Rational. I never coughed up the money for the full profile so I always end up wondering whether I'm an architect, mastermind, inventor or fieldmarshal. Someday I'll find out for sure.