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Jefferson and the bar
In a true society, law is unnecessary. Societies are cooperative; cultures are all about control, so they need laws to maintain the hierarchy. This means that the cooperative are controlled by the most asocial individuals and their goons. This drives the accumulation of excess and the exploitation of everything, even the resources that support the controllers. Ironic, eh?— January 12, 2013 12:09 a.m.
Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
Brain health should be the top priority of all intelligent people. That should be the focus of this and all other discussions on this subject. However, regarding this case: 1. Modern helmets protect against skull fractures, and that makes harder-hitting possible. 2. Harder hitting causes the entire brain to slap hard enough against the cranial wall to cause brain injury. 3. Given this knowledge, intelligent people will avoid those circumstances, and will not support anything or entity that creates those circumstances. All sorts of brain injury have long demonstrated that behavior is affected, and "criminal minds" are likely to be the result of brain injury or developmental abnormalities. Diseases and drugs can do the same thing. I almost jumped off a third-story balcony after taking a prescription drug, and at least one man is rotting in prison from taking the same drug (his drug defense failed), because he killed his best friend while under its influence. Judging from what the drug did to me, I believe I could have done almost anything (mass murder--who knows?) under its influence. Not being able to control my mind and behavior was very frightening. I believe the drug is still being prescribed. When I reported the effects to my physician, he told me not to take it anymore--nothing else. No reporting, no scientific curiosity, no collection of clinical data. This is US medicine. It would have been reported to a central database in China, even then (the 1980's). Controlling Big Pharma might be more important than controlling guns. Can intelligent people really believe that such insane acts are caused only by a lack of, say, "moral compass?" I wonder what kind of brain damage might cause us to focus only upon revenge, without giving consideration to the causes of such abnormal behavior?— January 11, 2013 11:54 p.m.
UCAN board meeting gets testy
Just what justifies closed meetings?— January 11, 2013 11:17 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
I prefer to stick to issues and avoid personalities; therefore my comment wasn't "aimed" at any particular person, but the principle underlying the behavior. The subject under discussion, in many of its facets, seems to fit the category, but I do not have enough facts to call anyone names. A quote that does merit Bartlett's, however, is that of R. M. Gilmore: "The suspension of judgment is the highest exercise in intellectual discipline."— January 11, 2013 10:59 p.m.
Consider the source: Pygmalion
Well, yeah, pretty in a very childlike (very quiet) way, but I didn't think of her as a "babe." In fact, at the time, I got the impression that Loewe liked the boys better, but I had no real basis for any such conclusion. A talented person whose relatively few marks he left on the world are deep and significant ones. Quality, rather than quantity.— January 9, 2013 8:30 p.m.
Consider the source: Pygmalion
JSM: Thanks for sharing your considerable scholarship. Ah, HA! The ending . . .— January 9, 2013 8:23 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
I this the tip of the iceberg?— January 9, 2013 8:03 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
Demagoguery requires at least a kernel of truth, something like bait covering a hook.— January 9, 2013 8 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
Time was, a member had the right to vote and run for office, and free elections would be held. The control freaks found ways around this, and ultimately "members" ended up being MINO'S, members in name only. No voting, no petitioning, and so on . . . Virtually all major organizations, including, for example, the museums in Balboa Park, have only MINO's. I am an ex-member of those institutions. They will not (any longer) get a dime of my vast fortune when I die. Citizenship requires a certain stubbornness.— January 9, 2013 7:55 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
Yeah, sure. When chained puppies fly . . .— January 7, 2013 10:19 p.m.