"haphazard thought stacking."

It the difficulty of putting all the data points and the

parent system(s?) into nice little boxes.

Not.

And your plaintiff wants...boxes.

There's an even better Cray coming...

and a new quantum NOT gate is here [Delph U.].

Soon boxes maybe or..Not.

What the NYT needs to do with Gordon and

What the AEI needs to do with Keane

Just so you remember he's the Republican Senate leader homophobe who's doing a......George Wallace stonewall stance on

Spitzer's great marriage bill.

I am stolidly or at least solidly against capital punishment

[really should be termed revenge-killing...actually].

BUT, these two 'care-givers'....

"...CIA-employed psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, were at the center of the program, which likely violated the Geneva Conventions...."

I would happily see hung.

I will blur 'al Quaeda' into 'al Qud'* and THEN...

We get Iran by the short hairs,

pulling it quickly out of the hat!

That!'s gotta hurt but...hell, presto ~

regime-changeo! and stuff.

Whaddya think?

[*".. a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard known as Al Qud, .."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2875413&page=1]

"...arguments can be advanced, evidence marshalled and facts revealed which can serve as an antidote to our deeply dysfunctional political discourse and, through reasoned-based.."

That's just what Al's 'Assault on Reason' says.

Proud of the bothaya. Am.

There's Mark Bittman/'the Minimalist' who works pretty hard

for ease and economy in ingredient, cookware and effort.

I try to cook like that.

Pretty sure he gets all the nurturant food features on the table...taste, mouthfeel, colour, texture and aroma.

'Presentation', naturally...as it were.

Frugal like that can be good eating AND efficient.

[Not to confuse at all with another NYT effort...'The Frugal Gourmet' which is...anything but.

I pity Bush but the nastiness of Cheney-hate seeps inexorably back no matter my efforts to finally banish this awful thing.

So I keep after it.

When I think of this man and the evil he has done and of which he is still capable I think --myself?! -- of torture and inflicting longterm agony, immiseration -- on him,

just as has he on so many others -- and I fight that back too.

And that is just some of the mental anguish which he has brought to us all.

ALL OF THAT said:

-Scowcroft has told us perplexedly that "he just doesn't know this Dick Cheney", a man with whom he has been close and closely associated. Puzzled , he simply no longer 'knew' Cheney...something had shape-shifted.

-Cheney has had any number of cardiac events and interventions any and each of which might have infarcted brain tissues;

Resulting in impairment or destruction of any number of loci in the cerebrum.*

These centers or connections might well have been critical to judgment or empathy or any of the pre-frontal areas given to simple human socializations. Those brain places which secure us from active sociopathy

-And in that and those possibilities, I take refuge from the

malevolent surges which have so taken me about this man..

[And would dearly love to have a top neuro-scientist begin to look at Dick Cheney with a bunch of fMRIs or PET scans to see perhaps and finally understand this man's most deeply seated pathologies.]

That thinking helps...I'm gonna be alright.

And I might even be right.

And actual human evil doesn't happen.

[*very recent studies in ischemic cognitive events.]

Isn't there some rule about a religion and its tenets, biases taking over a Governmental body?

In converting a court to a creed?

..."empowering women ...[onto more]..noble goals."

Has a more existential function, or at least potential, in

bringing us better moderated governance, more comity?

Might it not be that a generally more distaff governance is a positive step to better socialization and understandings?

Chimpanzee ladies are renowned for plucking hard-fisted, throw-ready stones from the angry hands of their more violently conflicted...menfolk.

And I think the neuro-science answer is, increasingly..."Yes".

Asking. But maybe we should just look.

---Guy, here---

of course of

'Sky Captain' and his 'World of Tomorrow'.

Could happen...and we'd have Angelina in charge.

So it's all good.

A large conquest corkboard with.....

Or a subpoena which stikes home and

BLANG!

Well maybe Clinton and Obama will eventually make the run

as 1 and 2.

Could happen...and what! a ticket.

Then...but what if fate dealt them both a raw

national or world political deal....

with which in turn and together

they couldn't or didn't deal...well at all.

Well, then we'd have had two important eggs,

One female and one barely 'off-white'

[or black in some lexicons] in the same

FAILED basket.

How the mind does wander.

The "Dads v. Cads" paradigm

"David Rifkin, however, a former Justice official in the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, called the commutation "fully consummate with the way the framers expected the...."

Be fun to know who this shill is...

close hauled to everything dirty the Bush bunch

have done or attempted.

Always wondered why he does accented American....

Another power-center guy from another country.

Also always wondered too why we listen to...'aliens'?

Just 'smarter', maybe?

Shades of 'Awnold', Kissinger, Bryszinski(sp?]

But NEVER about young people's music.

So read her and DO try to avoid...

the Malignant Brooks Creature.

Never[!] right about anything except his

base political persuasions [way!~right].

"....denies a Creator God and claims that life evolved from inanimate matter without Divine Direction, Oversight, or Providence."

Actually one of the really interesting things under examination by the Anthropic Principle folks and many other good science people is ....

WHY might a bunch of 'inanimate' chemicals shaped like a double helix WANT either to replicate or propagate?

[may have to do with substrate~catalyst interactions, but still leaves one with some 'Systems Thinking' and maybe even something called 'Providence'.]

Insult to injury -- we now know that prions make more twisty proteins like themselves in hosts other than the one originally producing the sick little strand.

Fun stuff.