...drives the investigations into mirror neurons, just recently confirmed by the original Italian team et al, seems to be working out as a key feature in human socialization, per se.

Simply that we ...both gals and guys.. can intuit what another is thinking or feeling in part because we can almost actually feel that touch or experience that hurt.

Women just and generally do a bit better as reading the social mood and the participants in the given setting.

And if men do exercise some denial at any of this womanly solicitude...softness, leaking some onto their hard-won manly me, it is perhaps understandable that they recoil at finding it.

Which is something too with which one might empathize in a world still very much a Global Patriarchal Assumption system.

There are also firm patho-physiological correlates encountered consistently in the neuro-scientific experience.

In that, for example, both autism and genuine sociopathy primarily afflict the male.

The autistic simply CANNOT read the setting. He doesn't see faces as do most of us. The true sociopath has no empathic feel, for good OR ill, for his actions as they impinge upon others.

His Theory of Mind just doesn't work. Deficient 'read', as well, perhaps.

Were I female, I would rejoice in that capability which is widely seen as enhanced..hard-wired?..in comparison with a famously male...hard-nosedness.

And do what women have done since way before the mastodon...sort of smooth things over so folks don't hurt or get hurt...more'n necessary, or maybe sometimes even...at all. Sometimes.

A new*, nice compositive voice.

[*Well. I usta do the Daou.]

Be well.

...the sort of forthright person -cum- pundit whom you so describe so well..and positively, here.

So thank you for you that insight and bless him.

Israel needs some real friends, a whole lot less jingoistic rhetoric, less of that whole victimhood persona and no more of those bellicose faux-manly, bellicose confrontational outbursts. Lots more serious examination/discussion of that which...is.

[I've always wanted to move all those nice, really smart, mostly funny, Jewish people to Wyoming where there's lots of open spaces, oil, friendly neighbors, enough water and no actual people. (Except for 6 real people all other inhabitants are virtual Second-Lifers or padded voter-roll 'people'.)]

...and my man an avocational Constitutional lawyer.

I called his campaign today (866) 675-2008 [Dial 6, then 0,]

and had a very nice conversation with a young man who was sympathetic courteous and everything I'd come to expect from the campaign.

I told him I'd canvassed for Barack, marched for him and faithfully sent him my lousy $20 every month... with the expectation that he'd stand up for us in this thing, at least.

For me it is a touch-stone issue sort of one-trick pony in my allegiances.

The aide was sympathetic. agreed that we should have a statement at the very least and we parted friends. I was not wholly reassured, however.

And here make this commitment that; If Barack Obama who is a good & decent person and:

One who will make a great President, DOESN'T help us with this Orwellian Tragedy;

My monthly pittance...upped to $50 is going to your PAC.

God Bless Us Everyone.

James Taylor MD(ret.)/Montana

Go somewhere because they're bored.

And when gas is cheap the going of here-and-about is made easy...

Comfortable, fun. Good road, open spaces...all that. American!, even.

When that ceases to be the case they're finding something to do about the house.

When the easy goes away....so does taking that little drive.

'Full stop'.

"..those studies that found women are more than twice as likely to become vegetarians than men? So maybe name-calling and bitchy superiority aren't ....."

..achieve exactly the same percentages.

[Why not? They both have symmetrical (proto-vegetarian?) brains...

and some other kind of alikes too.]

as fast as their scared little legs could carry them.

I'm betting rather that they're bought...

Or even worse, find themselves compromised....

In some awful way.

[my bold]

..and its slow load is not just problem with Glenn's blog but

ALL of Salon intermittently for 3+? months.

I am currently free of both the slow load error message

AND its parent glitch...clueless, why.

[But it did suck.]

When the 58-year-old Russert died Friday afternoon of a heart attack in NBC's Washington newsroom, ...

Any stellar reason why A? there wasn't one or

B? why it failed to get his rhythmicity groove back

[or IS that a chyron?]

..but did finally tumble.

It's not a matter of winning. It's one of fairness and...sanity.

And the struggle against the reactionary & regressive; the reptile-brained is never done

And then.. then I wondered who is this person?

[The bio doesn't help, But we'll figure it out.]

Sugar beets, instead?

Is the erg-extraction/efficiency rate any better, then?

We can grow them way up north in Montana..et al.

[Recognizing absolutely and at the outset that NONE

of this sort of non-cellulosic bio-fuel makes any real sense.]

Uh, what you said.

Title...

Oil trading Probe May Uncover Manipulation

-But overall, any wrongdoing is likely to play a small part in soaring crude prices. Meanwhile, speculators aren't expected to hang.-

http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/30/news/economy/oil_cftc/?postversion=2008053110

Very last paragraph...

"There is a theory that the price of crude oil is being driven up not by supply and demand principles, but by speculators using what are called dark markets, markets that can't be watched by the public or regulators, to manipulate the price of crude," said Greenberger. To top of page

My favorite movie is "Magnolia.

Well, not totally favoritest but certainly a buy it.

[I liked it so much for a so excellent take on that whole

(im?)probability thing, like Hitchhiker's Guide...]