One of my favorite YouTube pages, TheraminTrees, recently released an addendum video to its series on Transactional Analysis. Here, the narrator is presenting the psychological basis for religious fundamentalism, and much of it comes from an implanted desire to chastise, scold, and belittle others.

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In the 19th century, British Economist Thomas Malthus, famously predicted that while societal food production can only grow numerically (due to limitations in technological development) population grows exponentially. He concluded that overpopulation would inevitably overburden and overwhelm our resources. And, he may be correct in that projection. But his premise of exponential population growth has taken a few hits recently:

I really don’t know how I missed out on the whole Paul is Dead, urban legend. But this piece sums it up rather nicely.

I’m sort of amazed that this video from 2007 hasn’t been more widely seen. Perhaps because the bombings that it discusses are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US foreign policy incursions into other sovereign nations.

The man may be a lame duck, but he is certainly going out in style. Charred Earth, Alan. Burn it all down.

In what is possibly the greatest unintentional cultural commentary of all time by a scientific journal, the Times reported today that the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has removed narcissism from its list of mental disorders, along with four others.

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I’ve just discovered this young commentator who hilariously calls himself Hennessey Youngman. And I dig his work.

Anyone feelin’ the post Black-Friday blues can follow me on down to the Gulf of Mexico. The land is so rich thar’ that you kin pull black gold out of the sea with yer own two hands! It’s 1849 all over again, except wetter. Weez all gonna be rich! Yeeeeee haw!

The greatest American hero may not even be an American.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of WikiLeaks, already perhaps the most controversial website in the history of the relatively fledgling Internet. If you’ve been near any source of either news or Internet, you’re aware of the fact that said site, despite enduring a brazen and blatantly government-sponsored hack-attack, has released almost innumerable documents from the American diplomatic corps to the world at large. And the results are shocking.

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While our nutty country is forgetting its troubles with some good old capitalist ecstasy, let’s take a moment and remember some of the core ‘values’ that brought us to our current desperate station…