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  1. I hope if you're a loner, you're a true loner and not a pseudo-loner.

    Althouse - Aug 23, 2008

    A few weeks ago, I did a diavlog with Bella DePaulo in which I brought up the Jonathan Rauch essay "Caring for Your Introvert." She read and liked it and has this post: The same year that Rauch's essay appeared, the …

    Also tagged: relationships, crime, socializing, solitude, bella depaulo, jonathan rauch

  2. "Can't decide between Barack Obama and John McCain? Chances are your brain already has."

    Althouse - Aug 22, 2008

    "Using a simple word association test to look inside voters' heads, Canadian and Italian researchers found that many voters who thought they were undecided had unconsciously made up their minds." Do you think the …

    Also tagged: voting

  3. What? Not interested in "squishy grey area between the analytical/political and the creative/autobiographical"?

    Althouse - Aug 19, 2008

    This blog post aptly titled "Blog headings are pointless" is making me — me the blogger — nervous. And the subject makes me want — oh, yeah, me and my emotions — to link to this review of Maria Wyke's: "Caesar: A Life …

    Also tagged: law, books, blogging, history, writing, emotion, emotional althouse

  4. David Brooks goes to the Olympics opening ceremony and contemplates economics.

    Althouse - Aug 12, 2008

    David Brooks sorts human societies into individualistic and collectivist. He premises this categorization on some psychological studies that supposedly show that "Americans usually see individuals; Chinese and other …

    Also tagged: science, china, economics, sociology, i m skeptical

  5. "My mind is focused on the job that I have to do and the job that I want to do. It's just easy for me to do that. I don't know why."

    Althouse - Aug 9, 2008

    A cool article about the empty head of Michael Phelps. He swings his wings and slaps his back with a thwap once, then twice, then part-way around a final time. It is not, he says, a ploy to intimidate. It is rote, not …

    Also tagged: sports

  6. "For McCain, being cool meant being a rogue, not a policy wonk; but Obama manages to be a cool College Bowl type...."

    Althouse - Aug 6, 2008

    And it must irk McCain that the cooler cool these days is the nerd cool, says Maureen Dowd. Her column is all about the envy McCain must feel for Obama, but I wanted to focus on the transformation of cool. Obama is …

    Also tagged: education, advertising, paris hilton, intelligence, mccain, obama

  7. Would you trust a law professor to be President?

    Althouse - Aug 5, 2008

    Okay, this annoys me, because Steve H. asserts that I was annoyed by something, which I wasn't — I was just making fun of him — but I'm going to talk about it anyway, not to demonstrate that I'm nowhere near as …

    Also tagged: law, andrew sullivan, lawyers, law school, bill clinton, obama, hillary

  8. Why put such a negative spin on the desire to leave a message instead of reaching somebody when you call on the phone?

    Althouse - Aug 2, 2008

    There's a device — Slydial – that takes you straight to voicemail: ... lets callers ... avoid an unwanted conversation — or unwanted intimacy... .... We are constantly just missing one another — on purpose …

    Also tagged: relationships, technology, etiquette

  9. True eccentricity.

    Althouse - Aug 1, 2008

    It's what Manolo wants. He abhors "'faux eccentricity', the tendency of among many young fashion designers to adopt outrageous clothing and patently false personas in the hopes that they will mask the fully …

    Also tagged: music, tv, fashion, project runway, tattoos

  10. "Death by train is a particularly declaratory form of killing oneself. It makes the act a form of theater..."

    Althouse - Aug 1, 2008

    Very common in Britain, for some reason: In the past months in Britain, there has been a sort of low-humming cultural unease about suicides on the Tube, which are readily announced over station intercoms as the reason …

    Also tagged: uk, food, movies, comedy, death, robert altman

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