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Ryan Leaf in state prison
Don, no hay de que. You must keep pretty busy responding and reading all these comments, and can't be expected to absorb everything perfectly. However, back to this most important issue, the Seau family is suing NFL and the helmet manufacturer. Guilty and maybe guilty. Actually, the helmet's net effect is to increase the level of violence in the sport. The helmet *makes it possible* to hit harder; to use the head like a battering ram, a weapon. This increases the "excitement" of the game for the candy-ass "spectators" who haven't the guts to actually play themselves or are nostalgic for the days when they played high-school football. At root, it's all about sex (isn't everything?) It goes back to combat to win the favors of the fair lady, so some way of showing fitness for breeding is hard-wired into the species. I know from experience how much my wife was stimulated when I have gone to battle for her. Let's don't take this away--we can't escape it anyway. Think about the excitement when in school when somebody yelled, "fight, fight, FIGHT!" Both girls and boys would gather 'round to watch the spectacle. But that's different from spectator sports of today when, rather than fight for the fair ladies, men dress up in makeup to look fierce, and bellow a lot, but it's all impotent display. If I'm not playing, I'm not interested. Real wrestling is, for example, a real display of strength, strategy, and intelligence (to some degree), but how popular is that? Still, it fulfills our need for demonstrating fitness with minimal risk of serious injury. We have become "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."— January 24, 2013 8:36 a.m.
Ryan Leaf in state prison
Re: "Twister: I think everybody on the blog knows the difference between psychoanalysis and brain scans. Best, Don Bauder" Do I detect a testy note here? If so, I'm confused. I'm confused period. Here is what you posted: "Twister: It's hard to psychoanalyze someone whom you don't know. We do know that the addiction problem has been with him for a number of years. Best, Don Bauder" Here's what I had posted just before that: "Something's wrong with the brain here, perhaps all along (congenital), perhaps drug-induced, perhaps a little of both. Steroids?" All I was trying to suggest is that actual brain studies, rather than, or in addition to, psychoanalysis should perhaps be done. By implication, however, I was suggesting that a look at the brain (for a tumor, for example) might be useful. I do not understand why any of those statements implied that I insulted the intelligence everyone on the blog discussion by implying that they didn't know the difference between psychoanalysis and a brain scan (brain studies as opposed to psychoanalysis). If I need to apologize for something, I need to know what I am apologizing for.— January 22, 2013 11:35 p.m.
Ryan Leaf in state prison
Not suggesting "psychoanalysis." Brain study, e.g. scans, etc. I presumed that you knew the difference.— January 21, 2013 2:03 p.m.
Edison, SDGE want secrecy in San Onofre dealings
"will the CPUC tolerate transparency? Best, Don Bauder" Let's say it doesn't. What then?— January 20, 2013 10:40 p.m.
Free and clear? Not here
I hear ya talkin'.— January 20, 2013 10:36 p.m.
Economy 2013 "maddeningly slow"
Y'all have been validating what I've said for years in terms of The Big Picture: The Golden Goose is the consumer. That's why Henry Ford gave his employees a raise to 5 bucks a day. So they could afford his cars. We are very close to the precipice. The concentration of power and money saps the vigor from any economy, and many of us will come to envy the skills of so-called "primitives" as the slope gets slipperier.— January 20, 2013 10:33 p.m.
Ryan Leaf in state prison
Something's wrong with the brain here, perhaps all along (congenital), perhaps drug-induced, perhaps a little of both. Steroids?— January 20, 2013 10:19 p.m.
Free and clear? Not here
We had to downsize by around 70%, but at least we "own" it. However, if we had to pay taxes according to present value, we would have to move into a tent.— January 18, 2013 7:07 p.m.
State investigating Bridgepoint
". . . we haven't evolved beyond talking apes." Evolution is not a progressive phenomenon, it's an ADAPTIVE phenomenon. We are apes, we have been called "the third chimp." Make that chump. Chimp-chump. We invented culture, and culture keeps us from evolving (lowering infant mortality, extending life-span, etc.) However, that also means that there is a lot of genetic diversity in the human population, and that could mean more to select from when environmental changes compound and extend. The viruses may not be out to get us, but they will adapt to living in us, evermore as we throw antibodies at them. There may be a great die-off or it may be a gradual process, but as we waste the resources upon which, knowingly or unknowingly, depend for our lives, the slope will get steeper and slipperier.— January 18, 2013 7:03 p.m.
Borrego: one resort for sale, two big properties in escrow
It's a finite supply of geologic (an ancient deposit) water; when it's gone, it's GONE FOREVER. The recharge rate is a tiny fraction of the consumption rate. That's, to use a(n) (un)fashionable term, UNsustainable. The studies have been ignored, and Borrego Springs (insane laughter) is whistling past it's own graveyard. Nobody can predict the EXACT date when it will be all gone, but it's like the farmer who won the lottery said when asked what he would do now that he had all that money. "Oh, I reckon I'll just keep farmin' 'til it's all gone," he said.— January 18, 2013 6:44 p.m.