Archive for February 2008
Nader: A Very Interesting Development for this Blog
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 24, 2008
I started this blog back in 2003 with what became my first essay: The Fourth Turning Predicts People vs. Corporations. From those humble beginnings, this blog and site have ranged far and wide.
Now here comes Ralph Nader inserting himself into the presidential race. What’s his platform? Check out Nader’s site. His platform is right there [...]
Just when you were thinking that …
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 23, 2008
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… this blog and podcast is nothing more than some intellectual masturbation (actually, that’s what I called it last year), validation has arrived.
Indeed, the Duck! and Gather stock has been upgraded from “curious and a tad strange” to “quasi-legitimate”. The event which caused this upgraded rating is the publication of a book that actually cites [...]
Transforming Grief into Joy
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 22, 2008
This blog is where I discuss semi-random theories of mine about American society, politics, sports, etc. — all with an eye toward a predicted impending collapse and coming renewal.
I suppose I also talk a bit about my unfinished book Personality and the Brain here too.
In addition, I started up a website called Holonation a year [...]
Kosovo
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 19, 2008
Another current story of interest to me is the Kosovo declaration of independence last Sunday, and the world response to it. I suppose it interests me for the same reason I am writing to you in English. In other words, it’s what I know.
What I mean is that my “ethnicity”, if I had one, which [...]
My Alter-Ago on Health
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 19, 2008
So I was surfing for stories on Steven Kazmierczak and SSRIs when I came across Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage written by some fellow named Mike Adams. Finding myself agreeing with upwards of 90% of the “far out” things Mr. Adams says in that piece, I figured I’d try [...]
Full Stop! Retraction! It’s the SSRIs, Stupid
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 17, 2008
Steven Kazmierczak is the latest infamous school shooter. This time, the campus police responded within minutes, thus keeping the body count down to a “low” 6.
The odd thing about this case is that Mr. Kazmierczak was not odd. He wasn’t an anti-social wierdo. He wasn’t one of those kids who made other people feel [...]
The Meaning of Superbowl XLII
Posted by: duckandgather on: February 4, 2008
As my dear readers and listeners have noticed, from time to time I digress and expand on a topic of little interest to many of you (e.g. Sean). But as I have pleaded, my purpose for doing so has been to illuminate parallel dynamics within American consciousness.
As I have explained previously, I see sports as [...]
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