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  • Scientists have found that part of your brain where Christmas Spirit lives

    12/18/2015 1:46:48 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    WaPo ^ | Colby Itkowitz
    It seems those warm feelings associated with the season actually activates a response in the brain. And for those who could care less about tinsel-strewn trees and red-nosed reindeers, there are specific regions of their brains that simply won't react to yuletide images. ... Why does this matter? Well, the researchers suggested that locating the Christmas spirit in the brain can help reverse the "bah humbug" syndrome – an unscientific diagnosis - that threatens Christmas for others. ... "Who knows? Maybe someday there will be a complex machine that can generate the Christmas spirit in people," joked Bryan Haddock, a...
  • Miers Mania (Conservative Samsons pulling the temple down upon their own heads)

    10/07/2005 8:37:49 PM PDT · by quidnunc · 6 replies · 289+ views
    Big Lizards ^ | October 7, 2005 | Dafydd ab Hugh
    A lot of us here are old enough to actually remember the seventies, the shambles the country was in after half a century of liberal rule (including the liberal Republicans Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard "we're all Keynesians on this bus" Nixon, and Gerald "WIN" Ford). Even more of us are old enough to remember Ronald Reagan. Reagan made some bad decisions (Beirut, Sandra Day O'Connor); and he suffered some serious disappointments and setbacks. But the thing about Reagan was that he never lost heart. He was the cheerful warrior. If he lost a battle, he took the best compromise...