Truth (Plus Lies)

This is a pipe

Jefff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:22:17 +0000

By Frank Chimero, via This Isn’t Happiness

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Should Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder be treated with ecstasy?

Jefff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:59:13 +0000

A couple of psychiatric experts have been using ecstasy to treat soldiers returning from deployments with PTSD.

Participants will undergo a preliminary screening process, and then partake in three solitary, 8-hour therapy sessions with both doctors. While tripping out, they’ll be asked to revisit the traumatic experiences that triggered their disorder. Dr. Mithoefer thinks MDMA acts as a catalyst for “an optimal zone of arousal” that prevents patients from becoming overwhelmed or, on the flipside, shutting down and detaching altogether.

From Wired, Via The Slatest

Hurricane Earl

Jefff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:25:53 +0000

This is Hurricane Earl:

Via This Isn’t Happiness.

74% of Arizona voters support law, assume that it will never be applied to them

Jefff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:22:53 +0000

The Morrison institute released a poll of registered voters in Arizona about SB 1070, Arizona’s racial-profiling-tastic immigration law. Voters like the law! They even like the specific components of the law when asked about them individually.

Voters also strongly supported the provision allowing police to detain anyone unable to verify their legal status, with 74 percent of respondents in favor of it. Ninety-three percent of Republicans and 73 percent of independents were in favor versus 50 percent of Democrats.

Yes, pretty much everyone in Arizona thinks they should have to carry proof of their citizenship whenever they want to leave their house. Or maybe just the Mexican-looking people have to. Either way…

Via The Corner.

Terrorishts are everywhere

Jefff — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:13:06 +0000

Some lady got freaked out by a group of Pakistani guys on a plane, and so they were removed by the airline. Turns out they were a military delegation from Pakistan on their way to a meeting at Central Command. Pakistan decided to cancel the meeting.

Pakistani officials said the officer, weary from the journey to the US, had said, “I hope this is the final plane to the destination” causing a female passenger, who believed he was threatening the aircraft, to panic.

Via Gawker.

Superheroes protest the Hollywood crackdown

Jefff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:41:49 +0000

Police in Hollywood recently started arresting aggressive and unlicensed costumed characters in Hollywood. Yesterday, the heroes staged a protest at City Hall. According to the protesters, the city is punishing all costumed characters for the crimes of a few.

“It hurts me to see a Spiderman who doesn’t know his lines. The tourists will quiz you.” Additionally, [a Hulk impersonator] says that some characters are “bringing their own personal problems” to the boulevard.

Via The Daily What.

Taurus by Jean-Manuel Duvivier

Jefff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:49:14 +0000

by Jean-Manuel Duvivier, Via Ffffound.

This guy lost an expensive painting, swears it’s only because he was so very drunk

Jefff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:40 +0000

The owners of a $1,350,000 painting are suing a friend for losing it. He was helping them sell it, but he got wasted and lost it. He says he was too drunk to remember where it went. The painting’s owners are skeptical.

Via Obscure Store.

Fidel Castro takes blame for Cuba’s injustice to gays

Jefff — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:01 +0000

Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to labor camps without charge or trial.
“They were moments of great injustice, great injustice!” Castro told journalist Carmen Lira Saade from the Mexican daily La Jornada. “If someone is responsible, it’s me.”

That’s certainly interesting, although any warm feeling it generates in me towards Castro is counteracted by the sense that maybe admitting you were wrong doesn’t begin to make up for sending members of a minority to labor camps.

Another interesting fact is that Cuba decriminalized homosexual acts in 1979, 24 years before America did. Of course, once again, America also never forced gays into labor camps.

Via The Slatest.

Spiritual safety tips

Jefff — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:44:10 +0000

What Should You Do If You Find an Atheist In Your Neighborhood?.

Via Buzz Feed