Dowbrigade

“John Silber is the Fidel Castro of American Higher Education”
- The Dowbrigade

“The good news is that Arnold is married to Maria Shriver and now that he’s had a sex scandal, the Kennedy family has finally accepted him.”
Jay Leno

Office Space
An ingenious little time waster with just two rules: collect
all the missing folders and avoid supervisors.
from
Disarea.com

Marijuana should be removed from the medical and criminal control systems. It should be legalized for adults for all uses.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in a Boston Globe editorial.

“We’re a superpower with a Third World grid”
Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor and former energy secretary under President Clinton.

There is no such thing as coincidence, right?  So I knew there
was a hidden message somewhere when I heard and read the word "slugabed"
for the first time in my life within two minutes of each other.
I read it [...]

"You know, that
would probably be the coolest thing"
California Gubernatorial candidate and ex-actor Gary Coleman,
when asked about California Gubernatorial candidate and ex-actor
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God is All-powerful and Omnipresent, and knows all that is knowable.
God had a good 3,000 year run as the ultimate authority, repository of
knowledge, dispenser of advice and receipient of pleas, supplications
and [...]

Some
of you (like me) may have missed Thomas
Pynchon’s rather remarkable introduction to the new edition of George
Orwell’s 1984, [...]

Speaking at a public symposium, a member of Parliament, Seiichi Ota,
recently made light of reports of gang rapes at a Tokyo university. "Boys
who commit group rape are in good shape," Mr. Ota said. "I
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Tattoos are not against the law in South Korea, but they
were a foolproof way of avoiding the draft.  Until the government
started arresting young men for ”willfully tampering with their bodies
to avoid [...]

The controversial science of mother-infant bonding gets a new look

A nice review of "Attachment Theory", once discreditied, newly rediscovered,
which basically holds that "children who develop strong bonds with their
[...]