syrinx

Today we opened three cereal boxes (Kashi Cinnamon Harvest ["beautifully delicious organic whole wheat biscuits, baked with cinnamon and natural sweetness"], Kashi Good Friends ["trio of flakes, twigs & granola"], and Uncle Sam ["toasted whole-wheat flakes & flaxseed"] into one big container and mixed them together with a big wooden spoon.

Next we opened the half gallon of soy milk and started pouring it into the big container of cereal. After a fairly short while, as whiles are measured, the thought occurred that this was not the single portion of cereal that was originally intended as a short term goal or task.

tags: pain brain reality neuro dinky pinky

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

http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/RelaxationTape/

Nice resource from the counseling and health center.
There usually comes a warning on these sorts of audio files that you shouldn't drive a vehicle or operate heavy machinery while listening to them. I tend to drive on autopilot anyway, so it's never affected my driving...my collisions come when I'm cognitively controlling what I'm doing. ;-)

tags: selfhelp relaxation audio mp3

Sometimes Sudoku isn't all that challenging after all.

Here's a link that looks at women and science and our culture.
In some ways we've advanced and in some ways it's the same old song and dance.

You try to avoid it, but sometimes it's out there anyway

tags: whatever

Folks at WebMD tell me that middle aged men with migraines (great name for a band, BTW), are at increased risk for heart attacks.

Middle-aged men who suffer from migraine headaches are 42% more likely to have a heart attack when compared with nonsufferers, according to a new analysis of the 20,084 men participating in the Physicians' Health Study.

tags: migraine cardiacarrest