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POPSObama’s Fairytale School Spin With all of his school records sealed off from public view, there is, of course, no way of proving if this even ever happened. “Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early,” Obama continues. “A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.” As there seem to be no pictures of little Barack at this stage in his life, adults subjected to the same speech would be suspicious enough to ask, “Where are your school records?” Impressionable children could lap it up like the fairytale it is. “Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school, Obama, Cool Dude continues. “I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. “I get it. I know what that’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother . . .
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POPSIran Media Reporting Arrest of 3 Americans The official said the account came from a fourth member of their group who was feeling sick and had stayed behind in Sulaimaniyah. The Iranian state TV report claimed the four Americans were together when they crossed the border, but "only one returned , while the three were arrested." The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled. The area where the three disappeared is a popular hiking destination known for a picturesque waterfall and rocky scenery as well as a thick growth of fruit and nut trees. Kurdish officials said U.S. helicopters and Humvees deployed to the nearby city of Halabja to search for the Americans after they were reported missing on Friday but left after it was determined they had been seized by the Iranians. U.S. asks Swiss help in accessing tourists
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POPSPalm Oil Critics: Wither Art Thou When the Snow Fell in Spring? It was a cool spring morning as I drove along the I 15 Freeway in early March 2009 heading towards San Bernardino near Los Angeles. Feeling that the morning cool was too good to miss, I pressed the button switch on my Mustang to bring the auto-canvas roof of the car down to enjoy the cool morning breeze. Approaching Barstow, I felt a sudden deluge of snowflakes, wet and cold on my face. “This can’t be happening,” I thought to myself as it was already early spring.
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POPSFriday Feeling The Friday Feeling is a "fly on the wall" 3 part film/documentary that follows a group of young men attempting to have a good night- out
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POPSHundreds of cats rescued from being eaten in China Eating meat is feeling increasingly wrong to me these days. I think of somebody eating my beloved cats or my parrot and I feel heartsick. But what really is the difference between eating a cat and eating a pig, or between eating a parrot and eating a chicken? Denis Leary's routine on the matter is funny ("You're a squirrel? Okay, you're cute, you can go. You're a cow? Get in the truck, you're dinner and a baseball glove!") but not, I think, morally or ethically coherent or justifiable.
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POPSGoogle Joins Twitter, Attracts 40K Followers Less than a week after Google signed up for a Twitter account, the company has attracted more than 40,000 followers. As CNET helpfully notes, that places Google somewhere between President Obama and Microsoft and Yahoo! on the popularity scale. The feed basically functions like a streamlined Google blog, covering new product announcements. But its first tweet, which spelled out "I'm feeling lucky" in binary, was undeniably unique.
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POPS"Bullies may be sadists"
continues: The boys with the conduct disorder had exhibited disruptive behavior such as starting a fight, using a weapon and stealing after confronting a victim. They showed both groups video clips of someone inflicting pain on another person and tracked brain activity with a type of imaging called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI. In the aggressive teens, areas of the brain linked with feeling rewarded -- the amygdala and ventral striatum -- became very active when they observed pain being inflicted on others. But they showed little activity in an area of the brain involved in self-regulation -- the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporoparietal junction -- as was seen in the control group. "It is entirely possible their brains are lighting in the way they are because they experience seeing pain in others as exciting and fun and pleasurable," Lahey said. "We need to test that hypothesis more, but that is what it looks like," he said. Lahey said the di
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POPSBullies may get kick out of seeing others in pain Larger study?! Was it been obvious from very beginning? Didn't we catch the glimpse of pleasure sometimes in the eyes of adult individuals? Isn't it the worst side of human nature? Doesn't someone making on it good, in fact filthy, money?
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