Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that use of psychedelic "magic" mushrooms can change the way people think and view the world for a year, possibly even causing a personality change lasting the course of one's life.
I recall one man who said, 40 years ago, that one could do that and control it with set and setting. He studied the psychological and physiological effects of psychedelics. The government hounded him. arrested him, and let the man be crucified in the court of public opinion. He ended his life considered by many to be a washed up hippy burnout.
I think some people owe Timothy Leary an apology.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
No Thugs in Our House
This is not the first time Anthony Bologna has gone over the line in dealing with nonviolent protesters. Before this current macing of netted female protesters, Tony Baloney is also up on false arrest charges in his dealings during the 2004 Republican Convention.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Everybody complains about the weather
CIA research into global warming is classified secret as pertaining to matters of national security.
I really, really hope I'm the only one to immediately think on reading the article that the CIA is afraid Sir August de Wynter is planning to attack again.
I really, really hope I'm the only one to immediately think on reading the article that the CIA is afraid Sir August de Wynter is planning to attack again.
Paranoia Strikes Deep
NYPD believes that immigrants assimilating into a new culture is the first sign someone will turn terrorist. Me, I'd follow Moroccan immigrants around, sure, but only to find the best Middle Eastern deli.
Cleveland Rocks
Rick Perry's co-chair says gays are responsible for tornadoes.
So fly-over country is more a modern day Gomorrah than San Francisco? This'll shock 'em in Sunday School.
So fly-over country is more a modern day Gomorrah than San Francisco? This'll shock 'em in Sunday School.
Friday, September 16, 2011
I want to learn the riddle of steel
Trinity College Dublin sacks Conan T Barbarian, Ph.d. from their teaching staff. Students are denied the wisdom of the man who wrote "To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature". It is believed that his conservative reactionary stance was to blame for the regents' decision.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Day the Music Died
Popular busking areas in Central Park have been taken away from musicians. There is possibly more to the matter than is presented in this BBC piece, but I support the musicians.
It's a start
NASA unveils new rocket for deep space missions. The SLS will be part of planned missions to Mars and the asteroids.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
No flying the very friendly skies then?
The War on Terror now equals War on Joining the Mile High Club. A pair of fighter jets were dispatched when a couple spent too much time in the restroom inflight. The terrorists have won.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Straight, but not narrow
Sherwood Smith and Rachel Brown are instructed by an agent to "straighten" a gay viewpoint character in a YA if they want the agent to sell the novel.
Rachel replied, “Making a gay character straight is a line in the sand which I will not cross. That is a moral issue. I work with teenagers, and some of them are gay. They never get to read fantasy novels where people like them are the heroes, and that’s not right.”
Sherwood broke the silence. “Do you think the agent missed that Becky and Brisa [supporting characters] are a couple, too? Do they ever actually kiss on-page? No? I’M ADDING A LESBIAN KISS NOW!”
Rachel replied, “Making a gay character straight is a line in the sand which I will not cross. That is a moral issue. I work with teenagers, and some of them are gay. They never get to read fantasy novels where people like them are the heroes, and that’s not right.”
Sherwood broke the silence. “Do you think the agent missed that Becky and Brisa [supporting characters] are a couple, too? Do they ever actually kiss on-page? No? I’M ADDING A LESBIAN KISS NOW!”
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Tasteless
The things necessary to grow tomatoes (chemicals, worker conditions) may well make them inedible to me.
"Slavery is what is happening. There is no way to gloss it. You can't say "slavery-like." You can't say "near-slavery." "Human trafficking" doesn't even do it credit. Here are some things that are in court records; it's all been proven.
"The main problem is that tomatoes' ancestors come from desert areas. They're adapted to extremely dry, low-humidity areas. That's why Southern Italy and parts of California are so good for tomatoes; it doesn't rain all summer. Florida is notoriously humid, which is just perfect conditions for all of the funguses, rusts, blights, insects and pests that destroy tomatoes.
"Slavery is what is happening. There is no way to gloss it. You can't say "slavery-like." You can't say "near-slavery." "Human trafficking" doesn't even do it credit. Here are some things that are in court records; it's all been proven.
"People are being bought and sold like chattels. People are locked and shackled in chains at night in order to prevent them from escaping. People are being beaten severely if they're too tired to work, too sick to work or don't want to work hard enough. People are beaten even more severely or murdered if they try to escape. They receive little or no pay for their efforts.
"That, to me, is slavery. It's like 1850, not 2011."
"That's why they have to use 110 different chemicals, fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides to even get a crop. Florida and California grow about the same amount of tomatoes. Florida uses eight times to get the same agricultural product.
"The second problem with Florida is - I'm not even going to call it soil, because it isn't. Florida tomatoes are grown in sand. Just like the sand on Daytona Beach, it's great to wiggle your toes in, but it contains zero nutrients. None.
"So they have to essentially pump in all the chemical food that the plant is going to need for its lifetime. Then they seal the row in plastic and hope they'll get a crop."
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Perry 2012*
Hunger has worsened in Texas while remaining the same in much of the rest of the US.
*What he's done to Texas he can do to the rest of the US!
*What he's done to Texas he can do to the rest of the US!
"Are Jobs Obsolete?"
Douglas Rushkoff asks that question, though perhaps he should have asked whether or not the set of circumstances that made having a job desirable (as opposed to a career or employment) has passed out of contemporary culture.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Is that possible?
At this point, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer has made their goal on Kickstarter. It's worth looking at the pitch page (or whatever it's called) just to see the most nonsexual eating of a banana ever.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Yes and no.
Our brains are hardwired to fear creativity.
I both agree and disagree. I'm just not awake enough yet to properly argue the points. (Yes, I know it's two. It was a long weekend.)
I both agree and disagree. I'm just not awake enough yet to properly argue the points. (Yes, I know it's two. It was a long weekend.)
Friday, September 2, 2011
Undamn that river!
Next month, officials in Olympic National Park in Washington will begin the process of dismantling the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams. Removing the dams will open up the river to salmon again. The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe tell of a time when the salmon was so thick in the Elwha River that a person could walk from shore to shore stepping from the backs of the thrashing fish. Not sure I believe that, but it's fun to picture.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
GOP Knows Their Base
Republican Party in Pima County is auctioning off a Glock to raise money for this election season. Pima County is, if you recall, in Giffords' district and she was shot by a Glock.
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