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Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
Actually DOING things develops body and mind. Spectating, well, it's ok for some, but if used as a SUBSTITUTE for self-actualizing and growing, it can, and often does, develop into an obsessive hangup. This is true for a lot of sports fans. It is not for nothing that "fan" is short for fanatic.— August 17, 2012 8:29 p.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
So what's gonna happen to the "fixed income" crowd? This shoulda been the theme of the dems tasteless ad where the whatshisname/Ryan character shoves the old lady in the wheelchair off the cliff. A pox on both their houses. Somebody's gotta STEP UP!— August 17, 2012 3:37 p.m.
Divine Rivalry at the Old Globe; Cygnet Theatre's Man of La Mancha
And, oh, yeah, thanks for the warning about "Divine Rivalry." I shouda knowed from the title.— August 17, 2012 3:23 p.m.
Divine Rivalry at the Old Globe; Cygnet Theatre's Man of La Mancha
". . . it needs to come from within . . ." I believe I mentioned it before, but for those who would like to know, see "From Mao to Mozart."— August 17, 2012 3:21 p.m.
Another Iliad
Someone said there were 26 buck seats, but I can find only 46 buck ones, the the time I want to go is almost sold out. Have you gone to the website? Pretty clunky, pretty limited. What's going on out there? Are you going to attend and write a review? Please do. And listen to the interview by FM 88.3. But more comment on the timelessness of the central themes of power, force, and unbridled momentum, please. Now, if you please. And the various translators and their merits; the difficulty of translation--especially of poetry.— August 17, 2012 2:33 p.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
True. I rest my case upon your last point.— August 17, 2012 9:30 a.m.
The Racial Memory of John Valadez
"Racial" memory? Isn't it high-time we all debunked the whole phony concept of "race." It is a bogus concept dreamed up by one "white" guy of the "German" culture, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, in the 18th century. He was so in love with a single skull from the Caucasus Mountains, that he called it "Caucasian." He went on to popularize other arbitrary definitions of other "races." Arbitrary is bad "science;" in fact it isn't science at all. There are, of course, VARIATIONS within any species, or "phenotypes." But even this still widely popular "science" is questionable. Honest scholars continue to argue about what defines a "species." Good. I (take full responsibility for) assert that there is a continuum of variation amongst all sexual organisms, and "science" hasn't looked sufficiently into clones to explain asexual "reproduction." (Was there death as we "know" it before sex?) I have wandered off the theme of the article, but let me end with a point for discussion: It is far, far more likely that humans were black in the beginning. Lighter skin was probably an adaptation to lower levels of sunlight, the need for vitamin D, rickets, and death in childbirth due to that deficiency disease. All organisms must adapt to their environment or die. Genetic variation makes organisms resilient rather than brittle, and the resilient ones survive at a higher frequency. That shifts the predominant genetic combinations according to environment. Culture is another thing. Culture divides. Social interaction dissolves divides. Borders, like "race" are zones of friction, entirely artificial, man-made devices born out of a "race" for resources. Cultures form (sometimes called sub-cultures) because of exclusionary forces. That may not be all bad, but that wanders even farther from the origin of this attempt to put out the pseudo-intellectual concept of race. This comment has been posted on my blog, "Earth, Fire, and Water." http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/earth-fire-…— August 17, 2012 9:18 a.m.
UCSD's Gary Jacobson and Keith T. Poole predict political peace
The universal attitude is that if everybody else falls off the cliff, I can use my cash to pick up stocks, companies, hell--COUNTRIES, cheap. And thus become king of the heap--it's worked so far, why wouldn't it work one more time, or, go on forever? That's not even a question to those wise guys.— August 16, 2012 10:33 p.m.
Crest Canyon Open Space Park
Is Cercocarpus minutifolia no longer on the endangered species list? How is is ranked by CNPS?— August 16, 2012 10:08 p.m.
Locker Room Talk May Get Her Job — but Not With Padres
$cr#w all professional sports. Support LOCAL boys and girls.— August 16, 2012 1:01 a.m.