Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- The Left Coaster: Hammer Social Security
I have to laugh when I hear Team McCain whine about Obama capitalizing upon the financial meltdown, when it was Team McCain that themselves brought about the Georgian crisis and then capitalized upon it. Nonetheless, Obama has effectively taken the opportunities provided by the financial crisis and married his economic message to McCain's desire to privatize Social Security. And he's hammering this in Florida, which is damn good politics.
- Sue Blackmore: Can human consciousness survive without a brain? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
I was surprised to hear on the news that Sam Parnia has been awarded a big grant to find out whether the human spirit leaves the body at death – whether consciousness can survive when the brain is no longer working. He, and colleagues around the world, will place an image on a platform suspended from the ceiling of hospital wards and resuscitation areas, so that the image cannot be seen from below but could be seen if – during a near-death experience – the patient's consciousness left his body.
- Watching America : » God as Denial of Responsibility
- How Bad Is All This? | The Journal of Doubt
- Think Progress » McCain: I’m glad I deregulated Wall Street.
Interviewed on CBS today, however, McCain said he does not “regret” championing the deregulation of Wall Street:
- Sarah Palin: irresistible to satirists | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times
- Inside the vaccine-and-autism scare | Salon Books
Comments
@Human Consciousness: Hasn't someone already done this study, showing that no, really, your consciousness does not float up in out of body experiences. I heard an interview with a woman who wrote a book on the subject of death who sourced the study, I'll be damned if i can find it again though.
http://is.gd/2Y9z from NPR - it's all the NYTimes fault.
Two very confused candidates indeed -- the one desperate to pick up a swing state, the other trapped between his base (corporate America) and his self-image. But let me tell you from the heart of where it's happening (I work on Wall St.) -- the guys in the pinstriped suits are going bonkers too. As I said here:
Absolutely. This notion is completely supernatural.
If you quote me on this one, I promise that I'll try to look it up (You try googling "saga edda viking nail" and see how you'll get, heheheh) but basically, this viking made a practical experiment on this topic... His army was defeated, and he, and his fellow soldiers, were about to be beheaded. So he told his buddy that he would stab a nail into the ground, when he died — if he could. He couldn't. Q. E. motherfuckin' D. I say :)
I heard an interview with a woman who wrote a book on the subject of death who sourced the study, I'll be damned if i can find it again though.
Mary Roach? She wrote Stiff (about dying and death) and Spook (about the afterlife), both of which were pretty neat. I liked Stiff a lot more, though, because it was grounded in facts, much like the semi-autobiography of William Maples, Dead Men Do Tell Tales. All three are great reads.
That's the one! Thanks LafinJack.
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