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You wanna be a pacifist, it's not just giving up guns and knives and clubs and fists and angry words, but giving up the weapons of privilege, and going into the world completely disarmed.
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Cognitive Biases
Overconfidence effect – excessive confidence in one's own answers to questions. For example, for certain types of questions, answers that people rate as "99% certain" turn out to be wrong 40% of the time.
Books by Jay
Conflict and Conciliation: Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance

Despite the peaceful foundations of global monotheistic religions, the broad diversity of interpretations can lead to a sharp paradox regarding the use of force. Inevitably, we must ask ourselves: How can those who ascribe to peaceful beliefs suspend their own moral foundation to beat the drums of war? ... read more
Geraldo wants to "make pizza" out of Olbermann
National embarrassment Geraldo Rivera is at it again, this time threatening to beat up Keith Olbermann on a radio program, complete with comparing him a politically incorrect label for female genitalia. He then stripped off all his clothes and jumped around the studio shouting "Welcome to the dollhouse, bitch!"
Ok, I made that last part up. But personally, I still think he’s just pissed there was nothing inside Al Capone’s vault.






