The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists

The Last Psychiatrist: One Way Our Schools Are Training New Narcissists: What kind of school doesn't want a kid to stand up to a bully, especially when they're doing it to help someone else?

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller: I can see why Democrats are so offended. How dare Mitt Romney say they’re dependent on the government? Only Democrats get to say they’re dependent on the government! Has everybody already forgotten “Julia”?

The Last Psychiatrist: The Harvard Cheating Scandal Is Stupid

Interesting take...

The Last Psychiatrist: The Harvard Cheating Scandal Is Stupid: So let me make my own counter-allegation: the students aren't guilty of cheating, the university is guilty of entrapment.

Joe Posnanski at the Olympics – NBC Is Ignoring Twitter Diehards — And Rightfully So

Those of us with jobs are happy to see events time-delayed in prime time. Though would it kill NBC to have alternate prime-time Olympics programming on their other channels? I'm sick of swimming.

Joe Posnanski at the Olympics – NBC Is Ignoring Twitter Diehards — And Rightfully So: It feels like everyone is angry. But not everyone is. NBC isn’t doing a disservice to its viewers. It’s just ignoring the ones who don’t matter.

How NOT To Make Friends And Influence People | According To Hoyt

I seriously doubt most CEOs in this country agree with me politically, but why should I care? What's *far* more troubling are elected officials who believe they have the right to police people's thoughts. That's tyranny, folks.

How NOT To Make Friends And Influence People | According To Hoyt: What are you going to do for an encore? Go after every business in this country that’s owned by a religious person? Till – what? – everyone in the nation turns against you and buys a roll of duct tape to shut you up?

The Worst Things For Sale | The concepts of “holistic food” and “organic” are...

Nothing but the best cat food for my (nonexistent) cat!

The Worst Things For Sale | The concepts of “holistic food” and “organic” are...: The concepts of “holistic food” and “organic” are pretty thin when applied to human food. Holistic means nothing at all, and realistically, organic just means that farmers spray shit and piss on your vegetables instead of pesticides. I agree that organic farming is more natural, but if we’re talking natural, we should still be living outside picking bugs out of each others’ body hair.

LILEKS (James) :: Misc :: TV Guide 1968

The clips show you what a craptacular wasteland kids' cartoons were back in 1968. "Super President", really??

LILEKS (James) :: Misc :: TV Guide 1968: Welcome to heaven. TV was devoted entirely to you, the kid.Curious what it looked like? Mouse over the picture - almost every show links to a YouTube clip of the opening theme.

The Last Psychiatrist: Luxury Branding The Future Leaders Of The World

I can't tell if this guy is a little crazy, but at least it's an entertaining crazy...

The Last Psychiatrist: Luxury Branding The Future Leaders Of The World: Watches have the same problem diamond jewelry has; it better be beautiful enough to keep forever, because if you try and sell it you'll discover there is no secondary market for it.

Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: Hate Crimes

Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: Hate Crimes: So far as I am concerned punishing people for what they think is not a slippery slope, but the ski jump at Chamonix.

Awesome Dad Draws Cartoons on Lunch Bags for His Kids (34 Pics) | Daily Dawdle

Now I wish I knew how to draw...

Awesome Dad Draws Cartoons on Lunch Bags for His Kids (34 Pics) | Daily Dawdle

Movies | Musicals | "Rock of Ages," Urban Planning, and the Culture Wars

Either way, it's lazy writing. Just forget the plot and enjoy the songs.

Movies | Musicals | "Rock of Ages," Urban Planning, and the Culture Wars: But you may not be aware of a major change in the plot: in the stage version (which I saw recently), the owners of the Bourbon Room rock club face off against greedy real estate developers who want to bulldoze the seedy Sunset Strip and replace it with “clean living.” As you can see in the trailer, these developers are replaced by a pack of Bible-thumping prudes who oppose the “sex, hateful music, and sex” of the Bourbon Lounge as epitomized by rock god Stacee Jaxx.

The Ivy League - Book by Daniel Cappello | Selectism.com

The Ivy League - Book by Daniel Cappello | Selectism.com: If you’re a collector of Ivy related books then your shelves must be heaving by now.

The best part of waking up... | Catalog Living

The best part of waking up... | Catalog Living

Taking flight... | Catalog Living

Taking flight... | Catalog Living

The Fantasy Novelist's Exam

Crap, I have to start my novel over now...

The Fantasy Novelist's Exam: Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Blasted Lands" or "The Forest of Fear" or "The Desert of Desolation" or absolutely anything "of Doom"?

A Wonderfully Pornographic New Twist On A Time-Honored Tourism Photo | Happy Place

Yeah, I'm not trying this the next time I'm in Pisa...

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A Wonderfully Pornographic New Twist On A Time-Honored Tourism Photo | Happy Place: We're glad that this photo also captured the girl on the right, doing the tired, old "Holding Up The Leaning Tower Of Pisa" pose.

Why All Scorers Should Subtract N-1 And Multiply By 10 - Rhymes With Cars & Girls

I think I could manage to get below 9.0 in an ice-skating competition...

Why All Scorers Should Subtract N-1 And Multiply By 10: When faced with giving ‘scores’ of any sort, humans simply don’t seem to distribute the ‘scoring’ numbers in any sort of rational, efficient way. The most glaring place to spot this deficiency is in scoring of aesthetic sports such as diving, gymnastics or ice skating. Let’s say the ice skating scoring has a max of 10.0 points: even the worst imaginable performance will still probably get around an average 9.0 score. As long as you don’t, like, fall asleep in the middle of the performance, you basically get the first 9.0 points for free.

My Little Poni - Twelve Mile Circle

I've often passed the Po and Ni Rivers on I-95. I always thought that the Po was named after the river in Italy, and that there was a Ni River somewhere that I didn't know about. (Though I always hoped that the person who named the Ni River was a big "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" fan.) Turns out the real reason for the names is kind of cool, too...

My Little Poni - Twelve Mile Circle - maps, geography, travel: Four rivers in Spotsylvania County are called the Mat, Ta, Po and Ni Rivers respectively.

A chip on his shoulder... | Catalog Living

A chip on his shoulder... | Catalog Living

Buy a House at the Very Top of a Volcano For Less Than $1M - On the Market - Curbed National

Hey, no lawn to mow...

Buy a House at the Very Top of a Volcano For Less Than $1M - On the Market - Curbed National: But lo' and behold this curious desert dwelling located between Vegas and Los Angeles in Valley Springs, Calif.