“This gets us to the heart of the matter. Under well-established First Amendment jurisprudence, what Gates said to Crowley—even assuming the worst—is fully constitutionally protected.”
—Prof. Gates’ Unconstitutional Arrest - Forbes.com
July 2009
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“Everything that is being done by policy makers around the world is instead trying to restart private borrowing. A better analogy is therefore not a tsunami but a drug overdose—and our “neoclassical” economic doctors are attempting to bring the patient back to health by administering more of the same drug.”
—“No-one saw this coming?” Balderdash! | Steve Keen’s Debtwatch
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“Light-induced lucid dreams are likely to differ from spontaneous lucid dreams in one obvious
way—light! Whether they differ in other ways will need to be researched. Nevertheless,
Gackenbach has suggested recently that “inducing lucidity artificially may also adversely
influence the quality of the lucid dream” and result in experiences “that are not
psychologically as evolved as those that arise naturally.” With all due respect to my
colleague, her conclusions seem entirely unjustified. They were based on an extremely
questionable interpretation of a small amount of data from a single subject. That data was from
a pilot study reporting that eighteen light-induced lucid dreams had less flying and more sex
than a sample of eighteen spontaneous lucid dreams from the same subject. Gackenbach
claimed that compared with dream sex, flying is “more archetypical and represents a higher
form of dream lucidity.” The only evidence she cited for this notion was that dream content
from a straight-laced group of mid-western meditators had twenty times as many references to
flying as to sex. The point is moot anyway, because reanalysis the original data showed that the
subject had as much sex in light-induced as in spontaneous lucid dreams. As for flying, several
of the subject’s spontaneous lucid dreams were initiated when she realized she was flying. After
adjusting for this confounding factor, there is no significant difference in rates of flying in light-induced and spontaneous lucid dreams.”
—Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
“If someone is already sick, a plan to pay his doctor bills can’t be insurance! Can we at least get that much straight?”
— George Orwell, Call Your Office : Anything Peaceful
“It is a powerful thing, homecoming. I had come to love Montrève, with its green mountains, its rustic charm: but the City was my home, and I wept to see its white walls once more. My heart, a year and more accustomed to the sedate pace of the countryside, stirred within my breast and beat faster.”
—Kushiel’s Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
“Imagine your favorite cat living on the other side of a tall fence that protects it from a vicious dog. Suppose your cat were to dream that the wicked dog was dead, and replaced by a family of mice. What would happen if the cat were to remember this dream when it awoke? Not knowing it was a dream, it would probably hungrily jump over the fence, expecting to find a meal. But instead, it would find itself a meal—for the dog!”
—Dreaming: Function and Meaning
“And what Sebastian and Taylor did was no one’s business…until the show aired I guess. Haha.”
—NYC Prep - Blogs - Ally Zarin - I Could Relate - Bravo TV Official Site
