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From ESPN

Back in 1984, Hatfield asked several Navy riflemen to shoot at a target while he monitored their brain activity. He found that when the best shooters pulled the trigger, their left brain quieted and their right brain fired up. In all the inferior riflemen, left-brain activity remained fairly constant. They experienced little or no right-to-left brain transfer.

On the field, the left brain is like a D-back jamming you at the line of scrimmage. That’s the “thinking” side of the brain, the side in charge of motor skills. According to sports psychologist Trevor Moawad, athletes actually say anywhere from 60 to 800 things to themselves in a game, and it’s the left brain that does all the talking. Strahan has actually heard himself say things like “I feel sluggish” and “Are my feet under me?”

That self-talk takes up valuable time and slows the body. But when an athlete is calm and confident, the more creative right brain takes over, and the self-talk — and hesitation — subsides. Athletes call that being in The Zone, but really it’s just left-brain/ right-brain teamwork. “The Zone,” says psycho- physiologist Evan Brody, “is a thought-free state.” Remember when Michael Jordan scored 35 points in one half to open the ’92 Finals against Portland? After hitting his sixth three in 18 minutes, MJ turned to press row and shrugged as if to say, “Even I can’t explain this.” Right-brain transfer, Mike.

Explains why we do certain things better when we are intoxicated.

All you dancers out there, a tight song, a tight music video.

His skill is about average for a popper, but it’s still good. I bet that guy was good when he was young. The locking routine is pretty good, nothing too innovative, but pretty good. I don’t know anything about bboying, but it looked cool, nothing too complex I think.

Remember those remote controlled rats? Here is an article debating its morality.

Lately, I’ve been reading my sister’s blog (too lazy to link so just check the left nav), because I can’t write anymore because I suck and I sucky at grammer and spelling becuz it’s been so long so y’all know for y’alls’s benefits naw mean? well neways… im thinking bout shutting down the site cuz it’s hella boring to write because like i hate english and who needs that shit in real life newayz. who needs too no how too fuckin’ write when i got my gf who i luv very much. i luv her a lot. neways my day was pretty stressful like i went to work and then worked more and worked more and im going to do a lot of drugs like heroin because that drug is hella dopeiss ass hell.

Masochist: Hit me, hit me!

Sadist: No.

Remote Controlled Rats That Explode On Demand And Will Fetch You Some Beer and Maybe Make Some Drug Runs For You As Well

Go to glowsticking.org if you glowstick. Hell, even if you don’t, see what I’ve been doing in my spare time.

Classic Encylopedia Brown

Slate.com has a section where two people exhange email, which appear much like an informal debate. However, often it has the feel of a heated lincoln douglas debate (for those of you who has had no debate experience, a lincoln douglas debate is where two people yell at each other in front of a judge for a full 45 minutes, more or less, haha).

Here is a fascinating commentary on civil litigation, from yer ol’ buddy o’ pal, Ralph Nader, discussing government with James Fallows.

Your phrase “litigious society” jumped out. Would you be surprised to learn that Americans filed more civil lawsuits per capita in 1830 and in 1850 than they do today? (See the research by Galanter and Rogers at the University of Wisconsin Law School.) The only fast-growing civil litigation is between corporations suing each other. Overall liability costs for the business community have been declining substantially in recent years as a percentage of overall sales?lower than $5.00 per $1,000 in sales, according to Ernst and Young. The big verdicts that grab the headlines are few and far between and are reduced by the judge or by settlement. Then there are the appellate courts. The Wall Street Journal editorialists do not seem to understand that judges, not attorneys or juries, control the courtroom, and about 80 percent of these judges are former business lawyers.

It is rarely noted that the better newspapers and news magazines (and 60 Minutes and 20/20) often report the excesses of industry and commerce, but to no avail. Nothing happens in the succeeding weeks or months, so dormant are our institutions of government to investigate, enforce the law, or enjoin such abuses.

Apparently, although we think of our country as being a really materialistic country, we have always resorted to the “I’ll fucking sue your ass to hell, asshole!” or maybe I should say, “I’ll fuckin’ sue your ass to damnation, Mr Whitaker, your field hands are urinating on my corn crops and having relations with my chickens.”