When you hunt and eat squirrels, you have access to squirrel blood. She may not have done the hunting but I wouldn’t be surprised. My father took me squirrel hunting when I was six. (I was an abyssmal failure and, once he pointed the gun, preparing to shoot, I realized what was happening and thought, “Bambi’s Mama!?!”…

The day I completely switched my loyalty from Bernie to Hillary was the day I realized that he was complaining about being treated.....like a woman.

The only significant thing that I’d disagree with is that stuff like prefrontal lobotomies were considered evidence based. It would be more accurate to say that the concept of an evidence base (as we currently understand it) was not part of thinking at the time. The scientific method as it is applied today was not a…

Medicine has changed so much over the years, and I think it’s getting better. We are taught now about the bio-psycho-social nature of disease. You can’t just treat the biological part and ignore the rest. Prefrontal lobotomy was pure quackery (it should be about the evidence, not who is pushing it) and belonged to an…

I had a quick browse through some reviews on mindfulness and some papers on neural regeneration/neuroplasticity, just to make sure what I learnt a few years ago hasn’t been turned on its head since.

The alternative establishment kills people by turning them away from effective treatments in favour of things that don’t work. Not all alternative practitioners obviously (not even most). I realise I have strong knee-jerk reactions on the topic because of personal experience.

LBJ has a very complicated figure on race. Grew up in racist Southern States, had very racist views. But ended up passing a ton of Civil Rights legislation, pissing off the South.

I dunno, I know quite a few people like that and I think there’s something to be said for the type of person who doesn’t feel the need to flaunt their wealth. They tend to be more compassionate and empathetic toward people from different walks of life.

Poor white America is trapped in an abusive relationship with conservatism. They know something is wrong but they are terrified of the alternative. They will let themselves be exploited by their abuser for the abusers benefit. They have been convinced by years of gas-lighting that there is no other option that the…

This is basically the Greek Philosophers objection to their society’s shiny new social experiment: democracy. Democracy demands an informed and educated populace, otherwise the rhetoricians may drive the cart into the ditch based on their personal desires rather than what is good for all. A skilled speaker plus an…

Or, as Jeremy Clarkson once suggested, an ancient Range Rover that leaks oil and smells of dogs.

“Democrats continually mock these single-issue voters...”

What a myopic view of politics in general. What was Obama? No less kabuki theatre than Trump. An effigy for upitty whites to pat themselves on the back for how nonracist they were.

I said this in a separate message, but yep that CNN KFILE dude showed that his high school yearbook yielded exactly one black kid in his class.

His high school had exactly one black person:

Bannon was born in 1953. Richmond schools were finally integrated by court order in the 1970-71 school year so the idea that he went to integrated schools is laughable.

and he’s bad, bad, steve bannon

It’s like the “old money” people in NYC who think they are super classy because they drive an old BMW station wagon or a new Volvo.

the desegregated north side of richmond

There is nothing more elite than pretending to not be elite. Revelling in your eliteness is for strivers.