Tennesseans, here's our congresswoman Blackburn who can complain about every detail of a political ad she doesn't like, bash the NYT for running it, yet she doesn't have a clue of the name of the last soldier from her district killed in Iraq: Jeremy Bohanon killed in August, just 18 yrs old. Listen to her talk, what a dim-whitted phony.
David Shuster to Blackburn:
"I still think it's a little bit suprising that you didn't know the name of this last soldier killed in Iraq [from your district] who was only 18 yrs old, yet you know so much about the MoveOn.org ad and the tactics you don't like."
What's a "loose canon"?
Differing from a "loose cannon" which means - an irresponsible or reckless person, a "loose canon" refers to a loose set of rules, in this case ... my rules. Unlike many conservative bloggers that stifle debate and delete comments, I don't!
Conservatism: clinical tendencies
A study funded by the US Government's National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as: a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". (see report) ---------- A study by NYU and UCLA published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience showsliberals have a greater cognitive ability to problem solve and cope with changing conditions than conservativeswho are more "persistent and structured" and are more reliant on "habitual responses." From the study:
"Liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related anterior cingulate activity, suggesting greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response pattern."
Essentially, conservatives tend to rely on ‘persistence’ in a ‘habitual response pattern,’ despite signals that this response pattern should change... (i.e. "stay the course")
Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity - the anterior cingulate cortex, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to processing fear - the right amygdala.
1 comment:
William:
She would remember her own son's name if he died in Iraq--oh, what the hell am I saying? Her children would not be going there.
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