Psychoneuroendocrinology

Men who were in love had lower levels of the male sex hormone testosterone - linked to aggression and sex drive - than the other men. Love-struck women, in contrast, had higher levels of testosterone than their counterparts...

From matthardwick

"She said they were car kills," Mitchell said. "I warned her that it is illegal to take dead animals off the side of a road. ... The dead animals were used to feed the live animals, and some were given to flesh-eating beetles."

Odd Little Story

The taping began before noon on Sept. 11 at the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center, in Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, but it was later destroyed by an F.A.A. quality-assurance manager, who crushed the cassette in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, according to a report made public today by the inspector general of the Transportation Department.

The White Rose

Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest American is ashamed of his government... If the American people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall.

Clyde Wilson posted the first sentence here in Lew Rockwell's blog today. I tracked down the complete text, and posted a longer excerpt as a link to it.

I made one change, "German" to "American."

No, I do not equate the occupation of Iraq and the vile means necessary to secure it as equivalent to the crimes of the Nazi regime. Yet. But if we do not stop this it will become as bad or worse within a short generation. Yes, I give President Bush great credit for expressing the honest revulsion we all feel. But if he believes that decent, humane, American behavior can obtain the objectives of the Likudnik jihadists in his administration, goals he evidently regards as necessary to the second coming of Jesus Christ, he is in denial.