Search all posts
-
Most Recent Posts
Sites of Interest
Author Archives: Naomi
Is there such a thing as “brainwashing”?
It all started with that uneradicable question: why did anyone vote for Trump? For years I’ve been trying to uncover the answer by digging around in people’s brains. No, I’m kidding. I have been digging around, though, in a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, MAGA, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdalas, brainwashing, Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, Trump
1 Comment
Weird weird Findings from Harper’s: coyotes, vasectomy regret, ketamine, Mars’s rocks, political statement eating
The Findings are always factual. Harper’s even provides cites for them, just in case you can’t believe or understand what they’re telling you. It isn’t that the Findings are getting weirder. They’ve always been weird. Maybe it’s my attitude toward … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, Culture, Government, Medical care in the US, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Bronze Age massacre, Chicago coyotes, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Harper's, Health and Human Services, ketamine, Mars's rocks, Pervitin, political cannibalism, RFK Jr, Third Reich, vasectomies, zebra fish
Comments Off on Weird weird Findings from Harper’s: coyotes, vasectomy regret, ketamine, Mars’s rocks, political statement eating
The zeitgeist wandered off my reservation
I’m half-listening to a TV show on which the host said he was bringing on a legendary guest and I braced myself. I’ve never heard of him. How could someone be “legendary” yet unknown to me? He is supposedly a … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged zeitgeist
Comments Off on The zeitgeist wandered off my reservation