I wasn’t going to comment on Sandy and its depredations along the coast but after seeing article after article (or perhaps the exact same article hawked at many places, I never actually read any of it) babbling about how Sandy …
Category: Psychology
Endangered species!
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
Our police state is complete
It seems that there is no longer any point in droning on and on about the ‘impending’ police state, it is now fully embedded in concrete:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, …
Not just American InJustice
Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was
It reads like a real-life Scandinavian crime novel. In the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders, making him Sweden’s most notorious serial killer. Then, he changed his name …
Self-justification is the powerful mechanism that blinds us to the awareness that we were wrong
Why can’t law enforcement admit their mistakes?
Their refusal to do so leads to countless wrongful convictions, but psychology says few will cop to misconduct
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/21/why_cant_law_enforcement_admit_their_mistakes/
Another in the line of posts on the American InJustice system…
This one speaks …
FBI foils bomb plot at New York Fed
Sounds like great work by our domestic anti-terrorist agency, eh? Until you read this:
New York Federal Reserve ‘bomb’ plotter ensnared in FBI sting
Federal authorities arrest 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis who they say attempted to detonate a …
Anti-sex
Conservatives’ HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex?
Proof that vaccinating girls against the HPV virus does not cause promiscuity puts culture warriors in a spot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/16/conservatives-hpv-vaccine-dilemma
I find this bit so amusing I am including it verbatim:…
Finally! An explanation
Why are Americans so easy to manipulate?
We may be loathe to admit it, but behaviorism and consumerism are cut from the same cloth
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/13/why_are_americans_so_easy_to_manipulate/
…behavior modification works best on dependent, powerless, infantilized, bored, and institutionalized people…
This an interesting …
Superior compensation for inferior results
Banks err by confusing risk, uncertainty
Complex prediction models may have blinded financial institutions to looming meltdown
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345625/title/Banks_err_by_confusing_risk%2C_uncertainty
…Annual forecasts of currency values from December 2001 to December 2010, which guided banks’ investment decisions, badly missed the mark nine out
That free speech will be a dollar…
Various items: free speech v ‘community’, lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state
The core western political liberty is being slowly eroded by a toxic combination of the worst human attributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/14/free-speech-libya-drones
I talk about free speech from time to time …