Via The Stranger, we heard of a study about the long term of binge drinking on recovering alcoholic rats.
Even after longstanding sobriety [binge drinking] translates into a tendency to stay the course , a diminished capacity for relearning and maladaptive decision-making…
The forebrain—specifically the orbitofrontal cortex, which uses associative information to envision future outcomes—can be […]
Sorry it’s been a while.
I just wanted to pop in and point out something that jumped out at me today as I was browsing around the blogs trying to catch up on things that have happened in the last several weeks since the addition of John Paul Groom to the clan at the beginning of […]
*Or how Jesus was a motherfucker**
There’s an interesting article in The Stranger, A Lay in a Manger, about the eroticism in religious classical paintings of the Nativity.
I’ve heard the arguement of religion’s utility in society in relation to the Catholic church’s sponsorship of arts & science in the Middle-Ages and Renaissance. This ignores the […]
My reaction to this so far is WTF?!? President of the Catholic League Bill Donahue attacked Mike Huckabee over his Christmas political ad. What’s wrong about the ad according to Donahue? Bill sees a window pane in the background in form of a cross as a subliminal Christian message. And a covert Christian message in […]
I suppose you could call me an asshole. What can I say? I fell out of love with blogging, although I do read Eschaton and BoingBoing almost every day.
Thanks to all here for keeping this blog alive. I may fall back in love. Who knows?
LA
Yesterday, Richard turned a spotlight on the new National Intelligence Estimate, which states that Iran has not had an active nuclear weapons program since 2003 (NIE available here). This estimate represents the consensus opinion of 16 different American intelligence agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, […]
My new animation episode of Miss Dynamite is online. You can watch here or on Newgrounds. In the last episode, Eva and Blackie got captured by US forces in Baghdad. Now stuck in Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta, they must plot an escape. It probably helps to understand who all the characters are if you’ve seen […]
I named this bear Omar Hassan Al-Bashir
Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher in Sudan sentenced to 15 days in jail for allowing children to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”, has been freed after being confined for 8 days. A Sudanese court could have sentenced her to as much as 40 lashes and 6 months in prison.
Gibbons’ […]