Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Dr. Helen found an article from the seventies, it seems. Remember back then? Get in touch with your emotions…Alan Alda…Phil Donahue…show your feelings…express yourself…confront. It’s baaaaack —
The end of the holidays, cold weather and economic gloom will make today one of the most stressful days of the year for returning to work.
But experts have come up with an unlikely remedy – throwing a tantrum.
‘Releasing tension through shouting and screaming is a really beneficial way to expel the negative energies caused by stress,’ said body language expert Judi James, the Big Brother psychologist.
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The advice comes as a survey reveals that people are most likely to be irritated by colleagues eating noisily (28 per cent), sniffing (26 per cent), talking too loudly on the phone (21 per cent) and even singing (5 per cent).Researchers found only one in ten prefer to sit quietly to combat tension, while more than a third admitted to having tantrums.
Anyone over forty should already know how this goes. People have their outbursts, they feel so special, they go see their shrinks, they feel so special, they talk about how they’re going to their shrinks, they feel so special. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, someone is confronting someone, usually because their shrink told ’em to. They feel so special.
And then everybody’s doing those things, or at least, knows somebody who is doing those things.
Then they don’t feel special anymore. So people do more and more outlandish things, and after a few years the fuses blow and they’re forced to get into something that better defines their “specialties.” There’s an enormous crash, like a caffeine or energy-drink crash, for those who never had any real talent in the first place. Then it’s on to neon clothing, perms-for-guys and leg warmers.
I wonder what would’ve happened if we didn’t go through that? A computer in every home by 1977? A CD player in every car by 1981? By 1983, we figure out that sunbeams and wind are insufficient for accelerating our cars to freeway speeds every morning? The Governor of Arkansas plays a saxophone on Arsenio Hall and people roll their eyes and go “whatever”…instead of electing him President?
Personal expression does seem to possess an antithetical relationship to progress. My advice is looking more and more astute and sensible as 2009 grinds painfully onward. And it’s less than one week old.
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