Just Not Said

We all have different prisms we view humanity through. Because I never outgrew my chosen sport of swimming, one of the first things that pop...

Whenever I read about serial killers or other obvious sociopaths, I always find myself wondering about their childhoods. In virtually every ...

This morning's NY Post has an article titled, "Craiglist Bride: It's a Frame!" The first four paragraphs of the article: ...

The recent "Craigslist killer," Philip Markoff, is a good reminder of some of the important things to remember about sociopaths. T...

I'm evidently a little late to the party with this, but the following clip, featuring Susan Boyle from the British version of American I...

A recent book, "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq," by Helen Benedict, has gotten a fair amount of rece...

Most international incidents the United States gets involved in are usually complicated affairs, with all sorts of causes and ramifications ...

Two posts ago I mentioned that last month's mass murderers included white, yellow, and black, so there were no patterns to be noticed th...

The lamer the excuse, the more narcissistic the personality.

It has seemed that one couldn't look at the news recently without hearing of another mass murder. The shooting deaths of ten in Alabama....

Anti-war activists protesting the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have expressed their displeasure by turning the area nea...

The G20 protesters did themselves proud again (http://justnotsaid.blogspot.com/2008/11/behavioral-differences.html) this past week in London...

Many people seem to feel strongly that global warming is inevitable. But how can they possibly know? To have an informed opinion on global w...

Now that Fargo is facing an epic flood, one can only wonder if North Dakotans will go on a looting rampage similar to the one that occurred ...

During the Viet Nam War, it grew increasingly apparent that the Viet Cong simply had more grit than we, or the South Vietnamese, did. The Vi...

I was as outraged as anyone (see earlier post) when I heard of the AIG bonuses. But this afternoon I read in the local paper that ACORN had ...

I've always found world records more impressive than Olympic gold medals. The Olympics are a big meet, well publicized to be sure, but w...

(Ken Kesey, above and right, around the time he was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Ken Kesey grew up on a dairy farm in Oregon...

Frederick Forsyth, above, is known primarily as the author of such blockbusters as Day of the Jackal , The Dogs of War , and The Veteran . ...

A.I.G., the black hole which has already swallowed more than $170 billion in taxpayer-funded bailouts, is paying its top executives $165 mil...