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Posted Tuesday 12 October 2004
Lawyers
Mr. Kerry is a lawyer. Mr. Edwards is a lawyer. Is it a good idea to have our country run by lawyers? Bill and Hillary Clinton were lawyers. They were honest and truthful, right?
My personal view is that a lawyer is a person who spends a lifetime studying the rules, so that these rules can be stretched or broken, ensuring riches without honest labor. Toward this end, hapless "plaintiffs" are enslaved, and paid off with a portion of the booty, and hapless "defendants" ... well, who cares about defendants? They can get lawyers of their own.
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Posted Wednesday 06 October 2004
Cowardice Won't Work
New York Times, August 22, 2004: Writer Stephen Johnson reports on an almond-shaped part of the brain called the amygdala (pronounced "uh MIG' dulluh"), which is part of the primitive limbic system, which relates to emotions.Do liberals 'think' with their emotions?
"Studies of stroke victims and scans of normal brains," he reports, "have shown that the amygdala plays a key role in the creation of emotions like fear or empathy."
If amygdala activity is a reliable indication of emotional response, it raises the interesting question: Do liberals 'think' with their limbic system (emotions) more than conservatives do?
And the answer appears to be: Yes, they do.
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