If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As you’ve probably notice, posting has been more sporadic than usual.
The reason? I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time researching my upcoming vacation. I’m going to Stockholm and Amsterdam. I am putting out an open call to [...]
I’m torn about this clip. It’s Senator Robert Byrd breaking down on the floor of the Senate over Senator Ted Kennedy’s illness. Call me heartless, but I’m not sure I buy this emotional display. Usually when someone loses all composure and rambles on like that, it’s a spontaneous flood of emotion that makes [...]
I’m not going to be able to write anything substantial until next week, thanks to being swamped at work. But that doesn’t mean I won’t leave you with something to entertain you. In celebration of Mother’s Day, which was this past Sunday:
Um, yeah. And here’s something else to entertain you in case that wasn’t enough. [...]
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 as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave [...]
From Angelo De La Vega in response to the post Some Things You Cannot Explain:
Guidos and Nazis are just about the worst examples of humanity. I will, however, give the Guido some credit for a stream lined approach to women: cockiness, cocktails, and cocaine. These precious commodities assist trashy whores in easing the residual emotional [...]
