Amygdala

STILL ALIVE.  Still struggling with life, trying to carry on.  Still problematic.  Having lots of therapy. I hate to ask, but if yo...

TENTH BLOGIVERSARY December 30th, 2010, was the 10th blogiversary of this blog.  I began it on December 30th, 2001 8973 posts.   ...

SAID THE RED QUEEN . First, we don't kill all the lawyers. Let's continue the examination of the lawfulness of the killings of A...

PAPERS, PLEASE Children. Who we hates, we do, because their parents are illegal immigrants. And in Alabama,  this is now happening : ...

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! I say we just kill all  accused murderers  from now on. Think of the money saved, the deficit, and, of course, the...

YOU'RE ONLY AS SMALL AS YOUR DREAMS . Dream large .

ORBIT WITH ME . Ever dream of doing this ? Dream a little dream. Dream a big dream.

THE TERRORISTS WON . This is the price we paid. Read The Rest Scale: 5 out of 5 .

BARELY ALIVE I'm officially back in major depression at the moment.  Severe clinical depression.  Yes, a flare-up of my lifelong probl...

STAYING ALIVE Social media is very distracting from blogging.  So is real life social activity.  So is severe clinical recurring depres...

A GOOD COPYEDITING JOB, AND A BIG FAVOR TO ME A very important to me friend of mine -- not me -- with solid copyediting experience is lo...

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREEZE AND BE UTTERLY SILENT The Fourth Amendment continues to be onion-peeled into nothingness.   KENTUCKY v. KI...

BLOGGING IS LIKE A SIMILE . Let's try some news and article dumping throughout the day here, eh? The Amygdala staff has been slack,...

POTTERY BARN LIBYA, PT 2: ANTHONY CORDESMAN, ONE MAN ARMY, OR GIVE PEACE A CHANCE? Part 1 on Amygdala ! In Pottery Barn Libya, Part 1 (...

POTTERY BARN LIBYA, PART 1 What is to be done? Colin Powell famously said of Iraq , quoting Tom Friedman ( who got it wrong ) 'Yo...

HELLO, GOODBYE: YOU SAY GOODBYE, I SAY GO TO HELL, GLENN BECK Glenn Beck is leaving  Fox News, but not, I'm afraid, leaving us alone. F...

WHAT IS BEST IN ACADEMIC FREEDOM, CRONON? NOT TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES The current attempt by the radical "conservative" Republic...

APRIL WHAT? It's still April 1st on the Left Coast for another two hours and five minutes (when I started this post; an hour and ten ...

GOP'S RADICAL BREAKAGE CONTINUES Who is " Wisconsin's most dangerous professor "?  He's William Cronon .  Who he?  H...

PERSPECTIVE 5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo . Sometimes we all need it. This is the brain and emo...

MICHAEL D. GLICKSOHN, 1946-2011, RIP Mike Glicksohn was possibly the second most famous letter of comment writer to fanzines in all of ...

SNOG IN THE FOG (Cross-posted at Obsidian Wings .) If you happen to be in the environs of the San Francisco Bay Area from March 11th thr...

WINNING WISCONSIN, PIGS & HIPPIES TOGETHER: THIS IS OUR HOUSE! Crossposted at Obsidian Wings . Don't tell me we can't win th...

THE NEW REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARY VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA  Variant cross-posted at Obsidian Wings . Congressman stops short ...