tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post8860880484791447014..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Hangovershederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-70566184093443777032008-01-03T11:31:00.000-08:002008-01-03T11:31:00.000-08:00Interesting what studies of rats seem to tell us a...Interesting what studies of rats seem to tell us about ourselves. Well, at least the various researchers continue to draw conclusion about humans and human society from studies of rats and ratty behavior. What I am thinking of is a long ago study of rats and overcrowding.<BR/><BR/>The study, which can probably be web searched if you care to do so, involved a certain number of rats, with a certain amount of food and space. To start with there were less rats than food and space. Rats being rats, or being there was no television or booze to distract them, they soon multiplied to enough rats for the food and space, and eventually to too many rats for the food and space. The ensuing results mirrored some of the problems in our cities: rat gangs, squabbles that led to murder, infanticide, all the usual disasters.<BR/><BR/>We may be only a few chromosomes away from the apes, but we appear to share quite a bit with the local wormtails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-2085220820831313332008-01-02T19:42:00.000-08:002008-01-02T19:42:00.000-08:00Locoweed? Sagebrush? Sure it wasn't Salvia divin...Locoweed? Sagebrush? Sure it wasn't Salvia divinorum?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-73881497248859957472008-01-02T06:23:00.000-08:002008-01-02T06:23:00.000-08:00Cheney apparently either drank some strange Koolai...Cheney apparently either drank some strange Koolaid or barbecued with locoweed. Much of the commentary out there is that 9/11 pushed him over the edge, but I do not know why he chose to stand near that cliff. Maybe it's the sagebrush syndrome (remember the "sagebrush rebellion"?).<BR/><BR/>Anonymous DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-20231149507375388052007-12-31T18:32:00.000-08:002007-12-31T18:32:00.000-08:00Let me note that one of the posters on my recovery...Let me note that one of the posters on my recovery e-mail group also pointed out the "stay the course" reference. The connection is obvious, but it's not original here. <BR/><BR/>And I as I noted on that group, I appreciate the quote from Othello at the end of the article. Another from the same scene, Cassio again speaking:<BR/><BR/>"... Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!"<BR/><BR/>Happy New Year's Eve to all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-12726254766629879742007-12-31T14:35:00.000-08:002007-12-31T14:35:00.000-08:00Well, yes, I assumed that; but the question is, is...Well, yes, I assumed that; but the question is, is there a chemical explanation??hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1877364969264811242007-12-31T14:13:00.000-08:002007-12-31T14:13:00.000-08:00Cheney's got acute malignant megalomania with seco...Cheney's got acute malignant megalomania with secondary traits including greed.Linkmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00576347754628145004noreply@blogger.com