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POPSHow Nice Are We? What chimps can teach us about our mess of emotions. By Christine Kenneally Posted Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, at 7:03 AM ET
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POPSSo-called compassion "This sentiment is not, of course, the niceness and decency that we rightly admire when individuals respond helpfully to others. It is a politicised virtue, which means that it is focused not on real individuals but on some current image of a whole category of people. Correspondingly, it invokes hostility towards those believed to have caused the pain and misery of others."
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POPSTabGroups - Group Your Tabs in Firefox This is an experimental extension, and you have to log in to use it. But if you have a lot of tabs open at once, this is a very logical way to group them. Granted, its kinda not all the way working, but I've not found anything else that does it.
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POPSPeople Pleasing Disease Interesting third part of series on "people pleasing" as an emotional disease, with some advice to sufferers on how to change and begin to please themselves.
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POPSThe Tyranny of Niceness Related to passive-aggression as a cultural descriptor rather than an individual pathology. Fear of authority, chronic anger, bitterness, and the masochistic self-disempowerment of submission (see Fromm).
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POPSThe getting along guys At No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M. observes some similarities in the appeal of Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee, but he notes a wee bit of difference too:
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POPSNiceness - A substitute for goodness?
" the word "nice" is often used as a synonym for "good," as when someone compliments a man for being "a nice guy." But a world of difference separates the bland quality of being "nice" from the Christian virtue of charity and the virtue of justice. While it is relatively easy to be "nice," charity and justice are exacting and demanding. Anyone can be nice -- that is, easygoing, non-threatening, non-judgmental, and tolerant. A nice person never criticizes or judges; a nice person avoids confrontations and arguments; a nice person does anything and everything to keep peace and make life comfortable for everyone. He hears no evil and sees no evil. A nice person never insists on virtue or ever questions the prevalent practices and trends of the day. A nice person never feels outraged at shameless behavior or shocking injustice. While being nice easily leads to popularity and respectability and never creates enemies, it does not inspire admiration, cultivate heroism, or evoke respect.'
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