Pascale Soleil: humanAnimalthe kind of being we areFor the Record, Revisited- October 24, 2002 Like everyone, I found it necessary to propound my theories about the Washington area shooter (see "For the Record, My Theory" and "Sniper Theory Redux". And like everyone, if John Allen WilliamsMohammed and John Lee Malvo are the culprits as I assume for the purposes of this post, I was much more wrong than right. Here with my accounting. 1. White-supremacist. That's the biggie. Uhh..... NO. Not unless we've got the most self-hating black persons ever. 2. Weekend custody of the kids. ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/24.html#a386 You learn something every day...- October 22, 2002 ...but it's not every day that I learn something from my late local news. WJLA (Channel 7 here in the DC area) just reported on Rome's first official gay marriage. Typical late-night news fluff. But why "official" Well, apparently it's a legal marriage because one of the men is French, and France recognizes same sex marriages. Did you know that I sure didn't. Vive la France!http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/22.html#a383 Well Endowed- October 21, 2002 Okay gents, I know this is a touchy subject. But it keeps coming up (ahem), and so I would like to spread a little light (where did you think I was going) on the subject from a female perspective. As reported by Reuters and called to my attention by boing boing: On the heels of a previous report that debunked the notion that a man's shoe size could be used to estimate the length of his penis, a new study now claims that those with inquiring minds need merely take a gander at a man's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/21.html#a380 Politically Incorrect- October 21, 2002 For some of you, this may well come under the heading of "Too Much Information" in which case, please feel free to skip this post in its entireity. In a long-repressed fit of pique, I posted a rant entitled "The Curse" at BlogSisters. I fully expected to get pounded into the pavement by irate women scolding me for letting down the side (which only goes to show that I have my own set of knee-jerk assumptions I ought to root out). To my surprise, so far the reaction has mostly been the moral...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/21.html#a378 Will you Really- October 20, 2002 Touch your nose with your left forefinger. Go ahead. It's not a trick. I'll wait... Okay. That was easy, right You decided to touch your nose, and then you touched your nose. A simple, voluntary motion. Asked and answered. The new neuro-flavored debate over free will goes more like this: Is the feeling of will an illusion, a wily trick of the brain, an after-the-fact construct Is much of our volition based on automatic, unconscious processes rather than conscious ones ... The debate is still.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/20.html#a375 On the subway- October 16, 2002 I know things I shouldn't know, sometimes. I know things that people don't want other people to know, that they don't tell anybody. Most of the time I can't say anything about it, or do anything about it, because I'm not supposed to know this stuff, and I can't account for how I know it anyway. This is a really awkward subject. One of the reasons I don't usually talk about it is because it can make me sound like a raving lunatic. I may be a lunatic, but I'm not a raving lunatic, okay Trust me.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/16.html#a367 My cousin the cat- October 15, 2002 Can this be true I read in a recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine that, outside of the Primate Order, the animal whose DNA most closely resembles our own is the domestic house cat. I have to research this a bit... via Pax Nortona Update: Here you go... But perhaps the most unexpected genome sweepstakes so far is the probe of the house cat. The impetus for the work is an underappreciated genetic similarity between people and cats. Not that it's in our nature to chase mice or purr when...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/14.html#a365 For the Record, My Theory- October 14, 2002 Everyone has a sniper theory. The current common assumption is that the killings are opportunistic and entirely random. I don't think so at least not all of them. Here are my speculations. 1) This is the work of a divorced man in his mid-to-late thirties or early forties. 2) He has weekend custody of children, which is why he takes Saturday and Sunday off. 3) His ex-wife has some connection with Michaels Craft Stores. 4) The man may or may not have a military history. It's irrelevant,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/14.html#a361 May I just say how thoroughly this sucks- October 10, 2002 One of the great joys of living in the DC area is that it is a magnet for psychos (and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible, that's how pissed off I am). Tonight, there's this. Is it the sniper They don't know yet. In any case, another person is dead. And that just sucks.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/10.html#a356 The Rabbit Talks Relationships- October 10, 2002 In her own inimitable, slightly cranky way, the Rabbit speaks sooth: Then people say: Seek to understand first, and then you'll be understood. Give first, and you'll receive. I'm not so sure. There are people who you can seek to understand, seek to give to, and they just take and take and they still don't give a shit about understanding you in return. They're not bad or mean, they're just screwy, or they don't like you very much, or they don't like themselves that much. Who cares Find someone..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/categories/humananimal/2002/10/10.html#a355 |