My summer camp

I went to summer camp with the Unabomber!

WAR

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship …Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
-Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe Commander, Nuremberg Trials 1946 (from “Nuremberg Diary” by G. M. Gilbert (Signet, New York, 1947))

Camps for Citizens

Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft’s Hellish Vision

X2

And I said to myself, “Dude, that’s fucked.”

Comedian, cont’d.

Of course, I realize that the trailer (below) offers zero of the film’s content, but the synopsis suggests we will be asked to empathize with Seinfeld’s struggle to come up with 60 whole minutes of new material, and use his star status to bump up-and-comers from a club line-up.

Comedian

I’m not embarassed to say (I mean, I was, but then I realised that was silly) that the trailer (OK, so maybe I’m still embarassed, but it’s still funny) for Jerry Seinfeld’s (crap, I hadn’t told you why I was embarassed yet) movie, Comedian, made me laugh. (It’s been one of those days.)

Spirited Away

Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is on its way to American theaters September 20.

Schizophrenics

Laura Bassi Zaff, Ph. D. says, “Schizophrenics, because of a disturbed family life, have not learned to respond, through reinforcement, to social stimuli. They stop attending to these stimuli and instead, attend to other idiosyncratically chosen stimuli and this is what leads others to view them as exhibiting ‘crazy’ behaviors (see Bootzin & Acocella, 1988).”

The Ring

The Ring

More science porn

More science porn: Professor X (Wired 10.09)