From Jules Crittenden:
Former Canadian defense minister demands that the world governments disclose UFO technology and use it to stop global warming.
Instapunk on Patterico on Greenwald.
David Thompson: religious affiliations of comic book heroes revealed.
Some critics of Jeff may be surprised to learn that there’s a Royal Pasty.
Some potential viewers will never make it past the fact that this is a film made by a 62-year-old man that features a pile of naked young nubiles cavorting in improvised, athletic configurations.
I’m interested in this in part because my son Aidan has Childhood Onset Schizophrenia:
According to your book, three things intersect to create a killer: mental illness, neurological damage and child abuse. Are all three always there?
Two-thirds of murderers have all three factors, and the others have two of the three. It’s pretty clear that mental illness is not enough to cause violence because most people who are mentally ill are not violent. It’s also evident that neurological damage is not enough to cause violence because the vast majority of people who are neurologically impaired are not violent. And it’s clear that the experience of horrendous child abuse is not enough to cause violence because most people who are abused that way are not violent. Yet, most violent people have these three factors, or two of the three. That’s an indisputable fact.
Frank J. dispels “myths” about Dick Cheney.
Commenters no longer allowed to call Ace a homo.
Taliban Official: Bin Laden Alive
Cool. That means we still have an opportunity to kill him. (Cue Gleen’s howling)
I’m getting dizzy: South Africa takes over rotating chair of UN Security Council
Excuse me, sir. You’ll have to take that epithet outside.
They say it demotivates: Man Can’t ‘Run’ After Being ‘Hit’ By Blunt
Holy Shit! (h/t Reynolds)
Boy, am I glad I’m not like these guys
Why aren’t you at CPAC, too busy hanging out with your Hollywood friends?
Who says I’m not at CPAC?
Let’s face the facts, any conservative blog that does not feature Bryan Preston (I’ve been to Iraq and CPAC man) is basically irreverent at this point.
You mean irrelevant? Because irreverent is what we do here.
Sigh… I picked the wrong week to stop inhaling Scotchgard, you are correct Dan.
Dan, Sorry to hear about your son. But I’m sure that you have nothing to fear. He’s deeply loved and probably not neurologically damaged.
Personally, amok, I liked the old kind better, the Scotchgard Classic.
Paul Hellyer is old news. He’s the guy who declared in his dotage …
Thanks, Gordon, but having spent a lot of time at the NIH, I feel quite fortunate. The antipsychotic meds and other treatments available now mean that he’s actually able to attend public school and to live with us. He’s very sweet and very warm, but he’s also prone to episodes of paranoia.
Everyone who suffers schizophrenia is neurologically damaged, though. It’s like a wildfire across the corpus collosum.
Including the comments, I count 16 stories covered in this post.
But this is baseball. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Being a scotch aficionado, I have an aversion to scotchgard.
Sorry, Jeff. Morning round-up not a good idea?
Wait a second. New York is liberal. No one there would ever use racial slurs, right?
Diana—Actually, the tripods landed in Canada years ago. But the Chretien government saw their “Bush Sucks!” bumper stickers and immediately granted them resident alien status.
All those links, and you missed this, Dan?
I know that Bu$hco is everywhere, but I had no idea they were ressurecting the dead. That must be why they let James Cameron find Jesus. Look out for Armageddon, ‘cuz they’re bringing Him back!
And because you can’t be too careful…
Boston has never been safer!
Clearly, Hellyer is getting better acid than I am. And thanks for the tip about Scotchgard.
FYI: I had been unhaling Pam but have switched to Naturally Lite Olive Oil Cooking Spray and find it makes me just as high while, at the same time, lowering my cholesterol.
Although far from an expert, I’d agree with Gordon’s assessment that schizophrenia is not the type of neurologic damage, nor mental illness that is being associated with the propensity to kill.
The link is better established with the types of damage and defects that are seen following a childhood of significant mental and/or physical abuse and neglect. This is not a particularly new concept, Joel Norris discussed this link in his own book Serial Killers, back in the late 1980s. Pincus’ work seems to be of a more scholarly/rigorous nature than Norris’, which does draw some strong conclusions from pretty small samples. Regardless, if this is a subject you find interesting the Norris book is still a decent read.
Commenters no longer allowed to call Ace a homo.
Well, there go MY thursday nights…