We had to hear the answers to our questions directly from Sutman himself. Only he could confirm or refute the fear that had grown in us that someone, Sutman or someone just like him, had already worked their way into our hearts and was coloring and manipulating our deepest reserves of feeling, so that we couldn’t know what came from ourselves and what was a transplanted idea.
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Donald J. Sutman has an idea that horrifies some who hear it. Others immediately grasp its potential as a weapon in the commercial wars, and it stokes the flames of cupidity in their hearts.
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A new plan from an alliance of California Republicans and the Democratic Business Council, a group dedicated to making the Democratic Party friendlier to business, calls for America’s courts to be privatized, saving local, state, and federal governments vast amounts of money.
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A group claiming to represent true conservatives fed up with the continued demonization of handguns and assault weapons released a report stating that no gun regulations at all would be necessary if American families had more children.
Read More...The Missing Link: Men and Emotions, Part Three
It’s well established that men have trouble connecting with their true selves well enough to understand their own feelings. This causes no end of trouble, ranging from marital strife to fascism to monster truck rallies. The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can cut […]
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We often wonder how different the world would be were it shaped by the pure dreamers rather than the ambitious pragmatists. Think of all the visions of a better society that fail because they have no plausible way to be brought into being. What if society progressed with giant leaps of imagination rather than the […]
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The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can help men access their true selves and their true feelings. The method consists of a single disarming question. Read the first installment of “The Missing Link: Men and Emotions” for a complete explanation. We share these transcripts […]
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It’s well established that men have trouble connecting with their true selves well enough to understand their own feelings. This causes no end of trouble, ranging from marital strife to fascism to monster truck rallies. The Stoneslide Corrective is working with a team of psychological researchers and clinicians to develop an intervention that can cut through men’s resistance. The method consists of a single disarming question.
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Several windows were broken and five original artworks sustained “significant, possibly irreparable damage,” when a riot broke out after a constituents’ meeting at the Golga Gallery. Two people were taken to the university hospital for treatment—one a 68-year-old professor emeritus who sustained a fractured hand while allegedly punching a hole in an abstract expressionist canvas; the other a 42-year-old homemaker and philanthropist who threw out her back while attempting to push over a sculpture that turned out to be welded to the floor.
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A researcher at Upland Downs University in England is using evolutionary psychology to give stock traders and hedge fund managers an edge. The researcher, Richard Thadwicke, a lecturer in psychology at the school, performed a series of studies showing that stock traders perform significantly better in the hours immediately following orgasm.
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