I know a few individuals who fit the troll-bill exactly, feigning outrage when called out for the true nature of their interactions on Facebook…: If you have siblings, you no doubt harbor a hint of the sadist; who hasn’t delighted in getting the occasional rise out of a younger brother by petting his cat after…
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Bob Murphy NAILS IT: A well-known free-market economist recently submitted an essay to me, asking that I publish it on my blog. Let me reproduce a sample of it and then tell you how I answered him: The continuing slowness of economic growth in high-income economies has prompted soul-searching among economists. They have looked to…
DetailsThe Coolidge Effect explains cheating, in a way… In biology and psychology, the Coolidge effect is a phenomenon seen in mammalian species whereby males (and to a lesser extent females) exhibit renewed sexual interest if introduced to new receptive sexual partners,[1][2][3][4] even after refusing sex from prior but still available sexual partners. . . .…
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CompassRose makes yet another h/t moment, this one pure gold, and describes very well some of the narcissists we all know… If everyone around you is an idiot, most likely you are a jerkface: Picture the world through the eyes of the jerk. The line of people in the post office is a mass of…
DetailsThe digital age, many have argued, has given rise to a greater number of psychopaths and sociopaths than ever before. Whether it is our engagement with screens instead of human beings or some other factor, the truth is that more people seem to be self-absorbed today than in times past. Many would believe the least…
DetailsI am not one of the proud sophisticated types that will critique your language in a conversation or while you are trying to express an idea, because we all know how unspecific and bumbling I can be when I am trying to convey an idea. All of us should be humble enough to stay away…
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