Monday, December 12, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sandusky Scandal Continues to Grow
cross-posted here
I really don’t hate the pedophile who raped me. Sorry if that offends somebody. That’s how I honestly feel. I do have intense hatred for those who interfered with my expressed desire to get justice.
I couldn’t do it on my own. I was 21, sure, technically an adult: but I was terrified. Terrified! I had Asperger’s Syndrome. I was still being mentally abused by several people. My father had just been diagnosed with terminal Parkinson’s Disease which killed him. It was fucking chaos. If somebody, anybody else, who had any kind of authority in the institutions that I appealed to for help in those days had stood up and even just listened to me, really listened to me. The world would be a better place.
The world is the world. It is what it is. We have to accept it no matter what or we will kill ourselves. But it would be better if things changed the way Jimmy Williams in the above video and many other people this past week have been calling for.
Thank you for letting me speak.
Erik B. Anderson
The King of Funny Faces
PS - Thank you Goldie Taylor
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9/11/11
I was with my father 10 years ago today. I was getting ready for work upstairs when I saw the towers begin to fall. I ran down crazily to tell him "The twin towers are collapsing." He couldn't believe it until I turned on the TV and there they were. He told me to go to work. I worked in Secaucus, New Jersey, just across the river. My shift started at 11 am. Many of my co-workers watched the second plane hit from their window. I never made it to work, though. The roads were closed. I went to a Blood Bank to see if I could donate blood, but the line was already 40 or 50 people long, so I decided just to go to a car dealership and get some work that needed to be done on my car since I had the day off. I sat in the waiting room watching the news by myself for a long time.
A few weeks later, I remember walking in on my dad. He was crying terribly. I learned that he had just read a story in a magazine or something about a little girl who was never going to see "daddy's funny faces" again. I mentioned this as part of his story at my father's memorial service. It is the origin of the phrase "The King of Funny Faces".
A few weeks later, I remember walking in on my dad. He was crying terribly. I learned that he had just read a story in a magazine or something about a little girl who was never going to see "daddy's funny faces" again. I mentioned this as part of his story at my father's memorial service. It is the origin of the phrase "The King of Funny Faces".
Friday, September 9, 2011
They Still Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #13
I just posted this review on Netflix. Hopefully, it will be posted soon.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Move over Mongol. Red Hill is officially now my favorite movie of ALL TIME! Jimmy Conway is one of the most iconic characters in all of film. He's scary as hell like Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, but without the quirky haircut and the one liners. The plot is pretty much the exact opposite of High Noon. It's every bit as iconic. The whole thing is bloody perfect. It's glorious. I'm definitely going to buy the DVD and I want to buy a copy for all my friends. I just might do that for somebody I know who's having a birthday next month. Never mind the bollocks in some of the other reviews. Watch this movie. You won't regret it.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Monday, August 8, 2011
The head of the APA got paid.
An excerpt from Wired magazine:
I recently asked a former president of the APA how he used the DSM in his daily work. He told me his secretary had just asked him for a diagnosis on a patient he’d been seeing for a couple of months so that she could bill the insurance company. “I hadn’t really formulated it,” he told me. He consulted the DSM-IV and concluded that the patient had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“Did it change the way you treated her?” I asked, noting that he’d worked with her for quite a while without naming what she had.
“No.”
“So what would you say was the value of the diagnosis?”
“I got paid.”
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Concept of the Day - Mindblindness
Mind-blindness can be described as an inability to develop an awareness of what is in the mind of another human. It is not necessarily caused by an inability to imagine an answer, but is often due to not being able to gather enough information to work out which of the many possible answers is correct. Mind-blindness is the opposite of empathy. Simon Baron-Cohen was the first person to use the term 'mind-blindness' to help understand some of the problems encountered by people with autism or Asperger syndrome or other developmental disorders. Generally speaking, the "Mind-blindness" Theory asserts that children with these conditions are delayed in developing a theory of mind, which normally allows developing children to put themselves "into someone else's shoes, to imagine their thoughts and feelings."[1] Thus, autistic children often cannot conceptualize, understand, or predict emotional states in other people.[2]
More at Wikipedia
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Quote of the Day
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt for investigation."
-Herbert Spencer
-Herbert Spencer
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fallacy of the Day - Poisoning the Well
Poisoning the Well
This sort of "reasoning" involves trying to discredit what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information (be it true or false) about the person. This "argument" has the following form:
- Unfavorable information (be it true or false) about person A is presented.
- Therefore any claims person A makes will be false.
This sort of "reasoning" is obviously fallacious. The person making such an attack is hoping that the unfavorable information will bias listeners against the person in question and hence that they will reject any claims he might make. However, merely presenting unfavorable information about a person (even if it is true) hardly counts as evidence against the claims he/she might make. This is especially clear when Poisoning the Well is looked at as a form of ad Homimem in which the attack is made prior to the person even making the claim or claims. The following example clearly shows that this sort of "reasoning" is quite poor.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The First King Would Have Been 65 Today!
The first King of Funny Faces was born January 16, 1946.
Nobody deserved a happy retirement more than he did!
Happy Birthday Dad!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
They Make Good Films These Days (Just Not In Hollywood) - #10
My name is Khan.
I am not a terrorist.
I am the Post-9/11 Forrest Gump.
He's also an Aspie.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
I am not a terrorist.
I am the Post-9/11 Forrest Gump.
He's also an Aspie.
So Sayeth the King of Funny Faces!
Terror Directed at Everyone
"Evil is the process of a simulacrum of truth. And in its essence, under a name of its invention, it is terror directed at everyone." -Alain Badiou
Friday, January 14, 2011
The Death of Marat
One Year Ago Today the King of Funny Faces Got a Tattoo
It's a thin, one inch, teardrop shaped black stab wound under my right collarbone.
It looks like the wound in "Death of Marat" by David.
Enjoy the rest of this program about the French painter:
BBC's The Power of Art - David p4
BBC's The Power of Art - David p5
BBC's The Power of Art - David p6
It's a thin, one inch, teardrop shaped black stab wound under my right collarbone.
It looks like the wound in "Death of Marat" by David.
Enjoy the rest of this program about the French painter:
BBC's The Power of Art - David p4
BBC's The Power of Art - David p5
BBC's The Power of Art - David p6
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Bullies are Not Welcome In New Jersey
Christie Signs Tougher Law on Bullying in Schools
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: January 6, 2011
New Jersey on Thursday enacted the nation’s toughest law against bullying and harassment in schools, three and a half months after the suicide of a Rutgers University student drew national attention to the issue.
The law spells out a long list of requirements, including the appointment of specific people in each school and district to run antibullying programs; the investigation of any episodes starting within a day after they occur; and training for teachers, administrators and school board members. Superintendents must make public reports twice a year detailing any episodes in each school, and each school will receive a letter grade to be posted on its Web site.
The law, which goes into effect at the start of the next school year, lists harassment, intimidation or bullying as grounds for suspension or even expulsion from school. It applies to public schools, and portions of it apply to public colleges.
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“Other states have bits and pieces of what this New Jersey law has, but none of them is as broad, getting to this level of detail, and requiring them, step by step, to do the right thing for students,” said Sarah Warbelow, state legislative director at the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group. Many states, she said, do not even offer the protections of the 2002 New Jersey law, which made it a crime to bully or harass on the basis of race, sex, sexual and gender identity or disability.
More...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE!
STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE! STORY OF MY LIFE!
Judgment at Nuremberg Verdict
Spoiler Warning - don't watch if you don't want to know the end of the movie
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Quote of the Day
-R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience.
New York: Random House, Inc., 1967. p89
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