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There is a lot of rhetoric around people needing to ‘make sacrifices’ in these hard financial times… you know, bear the burden of rising costs together, stop being selfish and all that. Presumably we are making sacrifices for the sake of this.

The whole system needs a push from below, that’s why I’m for the unionization effort at UNH. Not because labor laws and legacy political constructs make perfect sense… but because it’s the only civil method of applying that ‘push’.

Seems I’ve misplaced my give-a-shit.

If you find it, please… don’t return it. I sort of wonder where it ran off to, but I don’t miss it that much at all.

… Charlie is actually putting wins in the record books.

Confidence is its own reward.

Kinda makes me miss World of Warcraft.

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This just in: beware hickeys. That is all.

Hey all! Check out this fabulous new family vacation destination!

And if you’re planning to add to your brood, this vacation ought to increase the genetic… ahem… diversity possible between you and your spouse!

Since we don’t see Ray slam it that often…

Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday

Watch right until the end… for the mouse part.

… Santa.

The commercials on Pandora seem to be getting more frequent… is it me?

I logged into LinkedIn for the first time in awhile. They’ve really added a lot to that site.

In other news, I’m dying for a Celtics game. I’ve abandoned a couple of my “mind off” activities this summer, and I really miss the pure escape of watching a game or, let’s say, playing a little World of Warcraft. The latter, however, is forever behind me, I officially quit a couple months ago, never to return to the land of Azeroth.

Lastly, I don’t think shopping cart software should be used to collect town and state vehicle registration dollars. After payment, one has the distinct feeling that the cart is still quite empty, and that one may have been robbed.

Very interesting article, here (Did emotions evolve to push others into cooperation?)… makes all the sense in the world to me. I definitely find that lowering my expectations of others has a mood stabilizing effect. I actually find that stability so gratifying that I’ve tried to remove any and all expectations, and the zen-like royalties keep coming in. I sincerely, honestly and completely just don’t give a damn what people do with their lives, and it feels amazing…

One of my oldest lines in response to an emotional person (’you make me so angry!’) has been “I can’t make you feel anything‘. And I think it’s true. People feel stuff on their own, probably in an effort to manipulate those around them, subconscious though it may be. The actual sensation of ‘feeling’ an emotion is probably secondary to the outward behavior it is meant to produce for the ‘benefit’ of others…

[note: I titled this post 'I Second That Emotion' after the Smokey Robinson song because it's exactly that relationship between motion ('I second that motion') and emotion (Robinson's savvy twist) that I want to point out: both parliamentary motions are human emotions represent movement, or the yearning for movement, in an evolving contract between individuals or groups.]