Part Seven: Inside the Mind of JeffsADDMind – A Conversation
Based on the popularity of the blog — JeffsADDMind — and the willingness of its author, known only as “Jeff,” to discuss most any issue that touches on Adult ADHD (and even issues that don’t touch on Adult ADHD), one would be surprised to learn that there is another side of Jeff that is not [...]
PDF The Disaster We Asked For: The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
The British Petroleum Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is just the type of disaster we asked for. The surprise is that it didn’t come sooner. It’s a result of many factors, beginning with the Reagan-Thatcherite realignment of wealth and power, the infantile belief in magical thinking — the “invisible hand” of the market that [...]
Huffington Post: Reporting the Hard Hitting News
The Huffington Post proves, once again, that it can deliver the “real” news. Print PDF
Julie Bowen’s Beautiful Breasts
Julie Bowen has beautiful breasts. I did not realize how beautiful they were so I am thankful that Huffington Post realized that they were so beautiful that they needed to be shown to the entire world.1 It is this type of reporting that enhances the intellectual level of discourse in this country. I’m hoping that [...]
Truth & Lies
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. http://www.thearrogantatheist.com/menstruthimage.html Is this really true? Is truth independent of people’s beliefs? 2 + 2 = 4 is true whether you believe it or not. Is there a world, a system out there where 2 + [...]
Are You A Terrorist? Then I Have The Gun For You!!
Under current federal law, the FBI has no authority to block the sale of firearms or explosives to individuals on the terrorist watch list. That means the federal government can’t stop gun sales to the same people it thinks are too dangerous to get on an airplane. According to the Government Accountability Office, people on [...]
Arizona Immigration Law
Text Below Added April 29 …Arizona is more than a laboratory for intemperate times: this place is a warning of what a state can look like when it’s run by talk-radio demagogues and their television cohorts. The crackpot laws owe their genesis to the crackpots who dominate Republican politics, who in turn cannot get elected [...]
Stupidification by PowerPoint
(Image source: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/December/091202/091203-engel-big-9a.jpg) “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of [...]
Minority Report: Should We Start The Anti-Trust Lawsuit Now?
With each passing day Google is sounding more and more like Microsoft before Microsoft got hit with an anti-trust lawsuit. By the time that lawsuit came along, they had already manipulated the PC manufacturers into offering only their operating system; they had already wiped off the earth any competing web browser (namely Netscape Navigator); they [...]
Pages From My Notebook
Some days I just get tired of having to push myself. I wish I could just wake up and, voila, no more adhd! ————————————————————- Oh!! Here’s a fcuking eye opener. I have a client who is definitely ADHD. They are god damned psychotic! They drop off the face of the earth and then, blam! they [...]
The Power of Positive Thinking: Point – Counterpoint
Is there a down-side to the power of positive thinking? Find out when Jeff debates Jeff.
DeLaVerita Reports: Does Obama Have The Political Viagra To Keep It Up?…And Other Items of Interest
On a regular basis I will be providing these brief reports which I have edited for quick consumption. Think of them as intellectual nuggets: small, tasty, bite-sized and (hopefully) satisfying. The full-course intellectual “meal” — i.e., the heavily researched and reflective pieces — will be posted at another time. Those may be based, in part, [...]
A Message From The Nation With The Smartest People On Earth
Tea Party Protests (Image Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html ) (And you thought racism in America was dead…eh?) (Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies…strikes again) (Hmmm…breeding ground for our next Timothy McVeigh?) Print PDF
Rethinking Google: The Conversation That We Should Be Having in the U.S.
On March 18th, 2010 in central London, Brits will be asking the question Has Google Got Too Big? Google started life as a search engine, but it has now become so much more than that: it’s an economic powerhouse and even a political player which wields much influence in both the online and offline worlds. [...]
