“Chestnut Gap” Urban Aerial Map Artwork by Ross Racine I love it when art showswhere reality crossed the line. In 1986 there were 28,496 shopping centers in the U.S., boasting 3.5 billion square feet of space. Today there are 46,438 malls and such with 5.8 billion square feet of space. Ah, you say, but the [...]
I’ve been keeping the dispatch scanner playing quite a bit lately – for the most part, public servants go about their work with expert aplomb (and it adds to an understanding of the causal relationships oft-hidden in the city to associate a patrol car prowling by or the klaxon sirens with actual events) … but [...]
… and shred the paper trail …
The internet provides an ideal outlet for the ravings of the insane (you’re reading this blog, after all) and the most ridiculous and amazing content is produced exclusively by everyone’s favorite type of crazy: the paranoid schizophrenic. While the predominance of raving lunatics would suggest that there is really no such thing as mild paranoid [...]
How many taxpayer dollars have been wasted prosecuting prosecuting innocent taxpayers..? … and how is it that the salaries of those responsible have yet to be touched while the taxpayers pick up a $101.7 million dollar bill … The discovery of secret FBI files that were not handed over during the men’s 1968 state murder [...]
Unfortunately, the pursuit of scientific truth often results in the same dogmatic thinking that religions actively cultivate… humans are inherently flawed in their capacity to evaluate information and perceive truth (otherwise religion would have had short shrift) – whether humans as a species will overcome this shortcoming seems very doubtful.
via The New Shelton Wet/Dry The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time itself—with all its accompanying anguish, fear, and bliss. By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments. Like blackboxes bobbing in the flotsam, these [...]
Dr. Robert Goodman, an internist in New York City, says the real force behind skyrocketing antidepressant prescription rates is pharmaceutical marketing to doctors and to consumers. “You put those two together and you get a lot of prescriptions for antidepressants,” he said. – CDC: Antidepressants most prescribed drugs in U.S.by Elizabeth Cohen for CNN Health [...]
Rampant paranoia results from this state; one cannot look at anything without being suspicious that this is some kind of allegory brainwashing you into learning An Aesop against your will. Is that box of Ding-Dongs one character is handing another a mere confection, or is it a blessing from On High, manna sent from a [...]
Pop another speed pill and go forth my most righteous angel of death! Anger is a natural reaction in this situation. Unfortunately, many become so disgusted that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. Feeling vulnerable, they may think, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” The idea of [...]
