Erika

1. System Justification
2. The Just World Bias
3. Stockholm Syndrome
4. Social Dominance Orientation
5. False Consciousness
6. Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire

Aaron On Justice

Finding A Way

Reading - on the nail head.

If you read well, you can do anything. If you don't, everything is harder, and some things are completely out of your reach - you're done before you get started.

I'd give anything to have had my deficit properly diagnosed by 3rd or 4th grade.

Compensating for your difficulty - and having to defend yourself against "He's a bright kid, but he doesn't apply himself ... he's not living up to his potential" - that shit's exhausting.

Hawk

Today's Rich

Gas is up 57%

Diesel is up 68%

No More Gerontocracy

Erika On Certainty

They sell us on Pie In The Sky

And while we sit here waiting for the pie, they take everything else.

On Being Human

What if the most human thing any of us can do is simple not to give up?

Lucas Bean Explains

Olbermann tells the story from a friend of his who explained it with a scoreboard analogy.

If there's something about you that you've been trained to think of as wrong and immoral and evil, you can deny yourself that thing for only so long - eventually, it will manifest in your behavior.

So what often happens is you begin to condemn that behavior very loudly and very publicly in order to score points against it. But in the meantime, you're scoring points in favor of it because that's just something you really can't deny always and forever.

So you trick your brain by keeping score. You may have 90 points for it because of what you do, but as long as you make a show of scoring 110 points against it, you're ahead of the game.

Today I Learned

... about my appendix