Good book!

It also doesn't sound like a cure. Inhibiting autonomic responses to internal mental states doesn't necessarily affect the presence of those mental states - the intrusive memories, nightmares, etc. Guided imagery and reprocessing (therapy) is intended to work through the trauma (under the assumption that it's…

PTSD is a difficult disorder for a lot of reasons. It was never intended to be as diagnosed as widely as it is today - where you can claim PTSD from sexual harassment at work (not a matter to take lightly, but not traumatic in the way that warfare is, either). The original diagnostic criteria called for a person to…

Republicans dominate "honey badger," with... uhh, one occurrence.

"What is still unclear is whether the FBI used Carrier IQ's software in its own investigations, whether it is currently investigating Carrier IQ, or whether it is some combination of both ... [t]he response would seem to indicate at least the former, since the request was specifically for documents related directly to…

That was my first thought. When SEAL Team Six went into Pakistan they ended up blowing up a helicopter to prevent it from falling into anyone's hands. But our top secret drones have no self-destruct? Seems like poor planning (maybe they need to let the SEALs run the drone program).

How much of you shows on your license? In WA it's just your head, from a couple of inches below your jaw, up (obviously). You'd have to be wearing a scarf to get text in your photo.

Yeah, they really can't. At least WA licenses have holograms and other safety features not easily captured by your smartphone camera...

Netflix did it for me, for serious. I mean, even though I can't always watch what I want, there's enough there I do want that I figure it's too inconvenient to go find a torrent with seeds and spend a few hours downloading the third season of Community when I could just go watch How I Met Your Mother right now.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't keep the party focused on you. After about 15 minutes everyone would leave a wide berth around the dude with whom it's impossible to talk because there's an eight inch bass thumping on his back.

People seem to equate heavy with durable... That's at least what I have to caution myself against when I do something like pick up the iPhone ("this feels really nice... but it's probably less durable than plastic because it's glass.")

I've already told you, I have no use for dogma. You're not discussing, you're preaching. You've made broad generalizations about people (people I agree with are good, honest people; people I disagree with are slovenly and dangerous) and aren't interested in challenging your own ideas. So I have no use for you. I'll…

Really? "Virtually every OWS rally in the country?" You must not be paying attention to anything I say, because you can't pull something like that out of your ass without a citation to prove it. Now, I could talk about issues of socioeconomic status if you like - that sit-in rallies where people are giving away free…

It's hard to look hip when you refer to a "Tablet" running "Android," as though those words are foreign and weird to you. Better luck next time, Your Popeness!

Logos, a bible software company improbably located in my city, has that covered. And they're giving it away for free! You know Bible-reading Christians will give up money for religion! Why would you do that?

I don't know. I didn't go down to the Tea Party protests because their ideas for solving the issues they see in the country and my ideas are light years apart. I saw plenty of other crazy people at Tea Party events. Birthers, racists, people from separatist militias, etc. Which isn't to say it was a majority, but it…

The two are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

What a lot of the research has shown us is that young girls who come from good families most often do talk to their parents, even if they're not required to. The problem is that this action limits options for girls who come from abusive homes. What is a 16-year-old girl in an abusive home to do when getting help means…

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo box set is actually floating near it's high price on Amazon, at least as far back as September. Not that it changes much - it has a low of just under $33, so it only varies by $1-2 over the last two and a half months.

To be fair, I don't think your interpretation of Hobbes' social contract is wrong (and hopefully you don't think mine is either). Once you accept that society is a compact between individuals to give up rights to share in the mutual benefits afforded by society you're still left with the question of where to draw the…