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The Psychopath’s Challenge

Posted on October 30, 2010, 11:40 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under Uncategorized.

It can be seen, then, that there is a clash between the empathic world view, the conscience, that informs our laws, grounded in a respect for others, and the psychopath’s. So who is right?

Tags: Al Sharpton, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Christopher Hitchens, communal values, conscience, Creator, Criminal Law, Dr. Jennifer Melfa, Emile Benoit, empathy, existence of God, Existentialism, Existentialists, fate of the Earth, fate of the planet, fate of the Universe, global warming, Hyperspace, Michio Kaku, Mother Teresa, National Catholic Reporter, Parallel Universes, Progress and Survival, Providence, psychopaths, psychopathy, Richard Dawkins, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Hawking, survival of the species, the Sopranos, Tony Soprano, Tort Law
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Previews of Love

Posted on October 30, 2010, 1:14 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under Theme Songs.

Figuring out girls with a little help from Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich …

Tags: Barbra Steisand, Billboard Chart, Buddy DeSylva, Cafe de Paris, Carnegie Hall, Destry Rides Again, Do It Again, Ethel Merman, gays, George Gershwin, impressionable youth, Jean Cocteau, Jerome Moross, John Latouche, Judy Garland, Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall, Kenneth Tynan, Lazy Afternoon, lesbians, Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich at the Cafe de Paris, New York accent, Noel Coward, Plato, poets, Private Lives, Sacher-Masoch, singers, songwriters, The Blue Angel, The Golden Apple, The Republic, Tiffany blue, Vanessa Williams, Wynton Marsalis
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Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

Posted on October 4, 2010, 11:39 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Political Correctness is an antibody that attaches itself to your diseased discourse and protects the American immune system.

Tags: Andrew Goodman, April, Barack Obama, Birmingham church bombing, Birth of a Nation, Civil War, Civil War in Virginia Month, Confederacy, Confederate History Month, Confederates, D.W. Griffiths, Douglas Wilder, Emmett Till, First Amendment, George Allen, Governor Douglas Wilder, Governor Robert McDonnell, James Byrd, James Chaney, lynching, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, political correctness, politicalcorrectness.com, politically incorrect, Polly Toynbee, President Obama, President Woodrow Wilson, racial epithets, rape, Robert McDonnell, Sarah Palin, Second American Revolution, slavery, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Viola Liuzzo, Virginia, Woodrow Wilson
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Archive for October 2010

The Psychopath’s Challenge

Previews of Love

Wash Your Mouth Out! Bite Your Tongue! The Uses of Political Correctness

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