FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0230 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Arousal versus quiescence. (T) p. 189
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
30 June 2008
29 June 2008
29 June 2008
MUCKING OUT THE BLOGPILE…
1430 by Jeff Hess
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 11 tips for sticking to a schedule of regular exercise.
29 June 2008
29 June 2008
WHAT THEY SAID…
1013 by Jeff HessIn short, from a geopolitical standpoint, the Chinese would have to be fucking insane to ever withdraw from Tibet. And, from that same geopolitical standpoint, they”re doing nothing substantially different than what the United States has done for the past 150 years or so.
29 June 2008
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0230 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
It is this grip on reality that separates a writer of hallucinatory intensity from a psychotic who is hallucinating. (T) p. 189
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
28 June 2008
WHAT THEY SAID…
1431 by Jeff HessNo, we just want a sane response as to what “winning” means – and preferably in line with the war-aims of 2003. If it means disarming and deposing and executing Saddam, we have won. But if it means a permanent occupation of Iraq until no possible threat from there could ever emerge, we will be there for ever. That, we now discover, was the goal. Quite why we do not fully know. It cannot be an end to terror: that comes from everywhere, democracies and autocracies alike. We are left with oil, a misguided belief that the West’s occupation of the Middle East will protect Israel, and, well, just because we can. None of these arguments is persuasive to me, when you factor in the enormous costs, drain on the military and absurdism of Iraqi political culture.
It’s not our country; and it isn’t threatening us any more. What right do we have to stay?
28 June 2008
MUCKING OUT THE BLOGPILE…
1430 by Jeff HessI’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Web Warrior Tools: Ridiculously Useful Guides to Everything
28 June 2008
MY COMMENTS…
1243 by Jeff Hess28 June 2008
WHAT THEY SAID…
1208 by Jeff HessOhio ranks 41st in the percentage of adults with bachelor’s degrees. Though it has many fine colleges, their young graduates don’t stick around. They head for the coasts or for “happening places” in between, none of which (with the partial exception of Columbus) happens to be in the Buckeye State.
Bright Ohio kids aren’t even enrolling in nearby colleges. The Cincinnati Enquirer recently reported that almost half the top seniors in local high schools were headed for out-of-state campuses. As jobs and young people exit, the remaining population ages.
Hat tip to my dad.
28 June 2008
28 June 2008
FROM MY DAD ON THE RIGHT…
0830 by Jeff Hess
My dad sent me a clipping from the Marietta Register containing a review from Barking Dog Books And Art of the book Deer Hunting With Jesus. I mention this because here in Cuyahoga County we forget that the rest of the state is not like us; that there are intelligent, rational, good people who don’t agree with our world view.
As a not-so-gentle reminder of that reality, I’m instituting an On The Right edition of From My Dad that will include harsh and sometimes disturbing postings from the farther right.
Democrat or Republican?
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words, redistribution of wealth. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. Continue Reading »
28 June 2008
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0230 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Large doses of drugs affecting dopamine can produce hallucinations even in normal subjects. (T) p. 188-9.
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
27 June 2008
MUCKING OUT THE BLOGPILE…
1430 by Jeff HessI’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is When Does Your Healthy Eating Plan Go Awry?
27 June 2008
FROM MY DAD ON THE RIGHT…
0830 by Jeff HessMy dad sent me a clipping from the Marietta Register containing a review from Barking Dogs Books And Art of the book Deer Hunting With Jesus. I mention this because here in Cuyahoga County we forget that the rest of the state is not like us; that there are intelligent, rational, good people who don’t agree with our world view.
As a not-so-gentle reminder of that reality, I’m instituting an On The Right edition of From My Dad that will include harsh and sometimes disturbing postings from the farther right.
From George Will:
Let us limp down memory lane to mark this week’s melancholy 25th anniversary of a national commission’s report that galvanized Americans to vow to do better. Today the nation still ignores what had been learned years before 1983.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once puckishly said that data indicated that the leading determinant of the quality of public schools, measured by standardized tests, was the schools’ proximity to Canada. He meant that the geographic correlation was stronger than the correlation between high test scores and high per pupil expenditures.
27 June 2008
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0230 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter influential in stimulating motivation – to move, seek rewards such as food, perhaps even to write. (T) p. 188
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
26 June 2008
JOY ATWOOD STORY GOING VIRAL…
1210 by Jeff HessBloggers are outing the lying delusional hatemongers and their droning minions as they attempt to convince like-minded (do they have minds?) souls (ditto on souls) that Senator Barack Obama is at best the anti-christ and at worst the satan himself.
Joy Atwood’s story, our own local soon-to-be-celebrity, is going viral with posts at Pandagon, Pam’s House Blend and Dispatches From The Culture Wars.
Of course, none of this would have happened with out Blogger Interrupted: Tim Russo.
I just did a Google search for +”Joy Atwood” +Obama. I got 45 hits.
This story is taking off.
I wonder how Danielle Serino and the management at WOIO Channel 19 feel now?
Good work, Tim.
26 June 2008
WHAT THEY SAID…
1056 by Jeff HessThat morning coffee is just the thing to get the brain in gear and the body moving. But it turns out that just the aroma of coffee also gets some of our genes up and at ‘em. That”s according to research in the June 25th issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The authors report that a sniff of coffee turns on several genes in the brain in ways that help diminish the impact of sleep deprivation. In rats, at least.
