It's a long slog of a read, but it's right on

What the leaders in the West do not get

Interesting read

"The difference between Elizabeth Warren’s partisans and the Tontons Macoutes is very little more than testosterone and time."

Kinda cool

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Mandatory reading

The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal

Some interesting points...

Captain Ebs

Monday Afternoon Bonus Read

The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People

Your Tuesday night light reading...

The Absurdity of Life without God

Go figure

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Nice article...

"For perhaps the first time in the history of the United States, it is in the political interest of a president to inflict maximum pain on the American people."

I was surprised to find this on CNN...

Cuts too deep? No, not deep enough

An excerpt:

Politicians have been trying to outdo each other in deploying what the neoliberal Washington Monthly founder Charles Peters coined in 1976 as the "firemen first" principle -- the notion that "the public will support (the Clever Bureaucrat's) valiant fight against the budget reduction only if essential services are endangered. Thus, C.B. always picks on teachers, policemen, firemen first."

Random

Interesting read WRT auto-immune diseases...

The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints

Lateral

I've had this linked on the "Random Reads WRT" tab on my blog for a day or so, but I went and re-read it this evening and decided it actually deserved to be on the main page.

It has a long preamble, but is worth working through if you like bouncing your mind around psychology. 

I think the author has a lot of it right when she gets into the list of traits...

20 Identifiable Traits of a Female Narcissist

Sunday Read

The 'Busy' Trap

Well duh!

Google scientists create one of the largest neural networks for machine learning,  which they turned loose on YouTube to learn on its own.  What did Google’s brain do?  Look for cats! 

The Flight From Conversation

An interesting read from the NYT about how technology is shaping human interaction.

Interesting read from The Guardian

Narcissists rise to the top because people mistake their confidence and authority for leadership qualities

Simply, wow!

Social Media Platforms, Narcissists, Borderlines and Histrionics: The Lure of Blogs, Facebook and MySpace

Interesting Read

Linked here

An interesting piece from the NYT on social networks and narcissism

The Online Looking Glass

I'm not posting it to say there is anything bad about social networks.  But some people can become addicted to them.  People with low self esteem can use them, sorta like a mirror, to reflect back an image of external validation to themselves.  It is a form of self medication they use to patch over a hole inside.

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder [males] / Histrionic Personality Disorder [females], in particular, are vulnerable to this type of behavior.

An interesting discussion on what is going on with the nuclear power plants in Japan

Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors.