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• A is for Anger
  One of my current topics for reflection has been anger. The APA web site has a topic heading as well as some pamphlets and news links.

• Get angry when hungry? Blame low serotonin.
  Brain chemical is key for keeping aggression in check, study finds - in which researchers manipulated
  

  serotonin levels in 20 healthy volunteers who were then asked to play a situation game that tested their responses to fair and unfair offers of money.

  tags: humor depression torture ethics anger milgram yale abu ghraib

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/63858/

Polemic in reference to Michael Medved's "Inconvenient Truths" regarding slavery and why the US brand of slavery was only following a rich Greco-Roman civilization/cultural heritage. Only thing missing was Barbara Bush's comment about Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston football stadium indicating that most of them were underprivileged, so this was working out well for them. Although the argument that African slaves benefited from their exposure to Western civilization was put forth by Medved....

tags: pain politics culture slavery apologists nonapologists idiots michaelmedved torture stupidty capitalism neurologicalpain