People rejecting free money
Cool article on people acting irrationally.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/irrational-markets-people-reject-free-money-out-of-anger.ars
Might be interesting to take a look back through all the things you’ve done “on principle” and see if there is any overlap with what they discuss in the article. Might be even more interesting to consider the emotional impact of not acting on principle - if you can cut through enough of the cognitive dissonance to, in this particular case, take the money and feel okay about it, since your actions don’t impact the transgressor, even though you think it’s a raw deal. How many important decisions in life involve rejecting material gain of some sort, because you don’t want to be “that sort of person”?
Real Quick: CNN Breaking Non-News
“— Michael Jackson’s mother files petition seeking legal guardianship of her son’s three children, CNN has confirmed.”
A) This is not news.
B) Something made me very sad about the death of MJ and I think this gets at it as well as anything else. The public obsession over MJ is at least partially to blame for his decline. We ruin the lives of perfectly decent people just because we feel, somehow, that we have a right to invade their private spaces: MJ, Britney Spears, Princess Diana, et al. In the case of Diana and Michael, they finally pass away and the feeding just continues.
I wonder what Bachmann was like in college.
A lot of stuff happened yesterday. Here’s something you may have missed…
http://minnesotaindependent.com/37810/bachmann-links-census-to-japanese-internment
Dear Michele,
You’re a Congressperson. If you don’t like the way the census is conducted or the information that is gathered, introduce legislation to change the census. That’s what Congress does. If a normal person doesn’t like something, they contact their Congressperson and then that person does something. You’re the person who is supposed to be doing something.
You don’t actually understand your job, do you?
Love,
Remedial.
Quickie on Iran/The Daily
On yesterday’s Daily there’s a clip of a young Iranian man impersonating Jon Stewart impersonating W.
Hehehe - I’m the decider.
Victory.
Father's Day
It’s Father’s Day. I’d forgotten this until I was at my local tea shoppe, wondering why I was seeing so many men walking around with kids. It’s very sad that there is a noticeable increase of fathers with kids on Father’s Day.
