Archive for April, 2008

Commenter Contest and More Misc. Stuff

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I ended up with an extra, brand-new copy of this book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely.  

This is how Publisher’s Weekly describes the book:
Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but [...]

Upcoming Stuff

Unintentionally, I feel like my blog has slowly morphed from general human nature discussion to being about dating.  I love talking about male/female dynamics to death, but I’d hate for this thing to become pigeonholed.  So I’m going to make a conscious effort for the next few weeks to broaden my scope.
 Lately I’ve been pondering and studing [...]

Radical Honesty

I rarely write about a book before reading it, but the premise of this one seemed so interesting I couldn’t resist.  I bought the book Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton because the premise of it seemed so challenging: brutal honesty all of [...]

Dogs Just Don’t Get Physics

Happy Friday.

A Hot Mess

I’m a master of snap judgments.
Looking at this couple, a few words spring to mind.  For him, I picture a life of being whipped, emasculated and eventually miserable.  She, on the other hand, screams narcissism, entitlement and self-absorption.  That poor man.  The article describes her as Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, TX but doesn’t even bother giving [...]