Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2690

Crap At My Parent's House

A self-explanatory tumblr. The above entry reads:

Aww! Get it? 'Cause when you hang a suit on it, it looks like a dog is wearing it. Then you go to your job and try to jump out the window cause the dog's spirit haunts whatever it touches.

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How To Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors

A guide.
















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Sale!

David McRaney takes on the anchoring effect:

Even if you've done some research online, you don't know for sure
exactly what the car is worth, or what the dealer paid for it. The
focus instead is the manufacturer's suggested retail price, and no
matter how unrealistic it is, you can't help but be tethered to it.

When you haggle over the price, you are pulling away from the anchor, and both you and the dealer know this.

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The Birth Of A Political Coalition?

Avent the unemployed are organizing:

What's happening now, with the increase in duration of unemployment, isthat you're starting to get large numbers of people with goodorganisational skills and lots and lots of time on their hands. Andthey're spending enough time without jobs that they are beginning toself-identify as unemployed, and to form bonds with others in the samesituation. This is a phenomenon that I don't think has been seen inAmerica since Martin Luther King's marches...

Face Of The Day

Members of the soccer team from Sacramento, California, cut their hair into mohawks, a tradition started last year, during the Street Soccer USA Cup July 30, 2010 in downtown Washington, DC. Twenty two teams made up of 200 homeless men and women players will compete for three days in the nation's capital for the chance to represent the Untied States in the 56-nation Homeless World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.



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In Pursuit Of Happiness, And ...

Damon Linker describes the composition of a purposeful life:

In the Aristotelian tradition of moral thinking, human beings don'tface a zero-sum choice between fulfillment and moral righteousness.They strive, instead, to fulfill a holistic vision of human flourishingthat includes both happiness and nobility. Or rather, this vision ofhuman flourishing treats happiness as inseparable from nobility. Thisis what Martin Seligman and the best of his colleagues in the positivepsychology movement have...

God And Quantum Physics

Michael Shermer continues to rebut Deepak Chopra:

Chopra's use and abuse of quantum physics is what the Caltechquantum physicist and Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann calls "quantumflapdoodle," which consists of stringing together a series of terms andphrases from quantum physics and asserting that they explain somethingin our daily experience. But the world of subatomic particles has nocorrespondence with the world of Newtonian mechanics. They are twodifferent physical systems at two different...

Deep Thoughts While Eating Cheerios

Jonah Lehrer exercises his free will by writing a blog post.
















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Mental Health Break

Lauren and JP really love each other. And Passion Pit:

Lauren + JP from Matt Odom on Vimeo.

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Quitting Christianity In The Name Of Christ

This week author Anne Rice that she is no longer Christian:

I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the
name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist.
I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be
anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be
anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of ...Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen .

Dreher won't accept this:

I'm sorry, but this is weak, and makes me...