At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage, Carol Off – some quotes and some notes “The word [‘freedom’] has been hijacked by those who seek liberation from their responsibility to others.” 5 “[T]he issue [of reproductive rights] has been reframed by the judiciary as an equal contest between the rights of …
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Sep 10 2026
from The End of Men, Hanna Rosin
Recommended! A few quotes and notes … “Women … make up almost 60 percent today [of pharmacists]…” p118 And the average income was $110,000/yr (and that was in 2012!) “‘Get a college degree! If you get a degree we will give you a shitload of money … and yet men are failing to get the …
Sep 08 2026
from What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
Caveat: Rodham’s book is about way more than Trump, but that’s the part I was most interested in. Furthermore, her chapter on sexism is, in my opinion, far too brief and superficial; I’d attribute Lauer’s questions for her on NBC’s Commander in Chief Forum to sexism, if not outright misogyny. “… I saw him dominate …
Sep 02 2026
A huge insight late in life
“We all wield different portfolios of knowledge. We have different values, different priorities, and different understandings of all that unfolds around us.” Neil DeGrasse Tyson Yes. There. That first one. My life-long error. I have assumed that we have different values and different priorities, and I’ve been prepared to argue for my values and priorities. …
Aug 21 2026
Our soooo left-brain society
Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary: the divided brain and the making of the western world is a lengthy work on neuroscience that will not appeal to many, but if you can sign out a copy from your library, I highly recommend reading the first six-page section of his conclusion (p428-434) wherein he presents …
Mar 08 2026
The blink. This is perfect.
“She blinks at me. … The blink isn’t confusion. It’s not processing. It’s a screensaver. It’s her brain going into standby mode because the incoming information doesn’t match the preset programming.” from a repost with no author name
Jan 25 2026
“Future Canadian Resistance Tactics” – hilarious list at Sweeneys
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/future-canadian-resistance-tactics
Sep 05 2025
your brain on psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan – an interesting read, especially, for me, the chapter on the neuroscience of psychedelics “It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person’s opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on psychedelics has lost.” …
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