Lola at the Coffee House

I forgot Tsarstepan. Fled almost from the get go.

BUMPITY BUMP BUMP BUMP

Studs Terkel in the introduction to The Great Divide: Second Thoughts On The American Dream, refers the matter to shorter and shorter soundbites. He mentions "a collective Alzheimer's disease" and the "Law of Diminishing Enlightenment". "Today, amnesia is much easier to come by." (That's 1989 and soundbites are shorter now.)

Now you're displaying OCD

Before you ask, that's Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In your case, marked by obsessive preoccupation with something--i.e. demanding a response from farmerman, continuing to dwell, or perseverate, on the same topic. JTT is a classic example of OCD.

You might have to live the rest of your life without knowing exactly what farmerman meant by ADD. Perhaps you could find a support group to help you with that, if you can't deal with it on your own.

You don't understand tsar. I want fm to say what HE meant by it. It's osso I'm after actually.

She accused me of being "dismissive" of others and said not a word when fm declared, in his usual fashion, that I had ADD.

And I was simply warning people about the dangers of crossword puzzles for reasons the scientists of behaviour set forth and which are obvious anyway to anybody who has knowledge of Pavlov's experiments. There is, I'm told, a slight frisson of pleasure when a clue is solved and pleasure is a powerful conditioner. And pleasure is Satan's ammo.

We all know what is usually meant by ADD. Are you claiming that fm meant "attention deficit disorder"?

Please, Firefly. You only serve to highlight your complete inability to address the tough issues. You did it with BillRM and Hawkeye; you're front and center whenever you perceive there's an "injustice".

What is it that fails you so badly when it comes to the war crimes and the terrorism of US governments?

Do you consider those people outside of the US lesser beings than yourself?

Considering Farmer's inability to also address tough issues, you probably are right, FF.

Why is fm obsessively refusing to answer the question?

I have never been anywhere near as obsessed with anything as you were over posh hotel maids being groped by IMF chiefs. You bared your soul.

The answer to that was made quite plain just the other day. An explosion in Boston is miles more important than one in a village in Pakistan. A man who has ordered a few hundred drone strikes was to be seen wringing his hands over the explosion in Boston and, as a side effect, putting the nation's riot squad on overtime.

Neremind. I know I have ADD and I can't remember exactly what this whole thing is about and I'm too lazy to find out.

Those who have knowledge of Pavlov's work, unlike you, know that it involved conditioned reflexes. He studied classical conditioning.

Learning that takes place as the result of a reward for an action is operant conditioning, and initial work in that area was notably done by B.F. Skinner, not Pavlov.

Being able to solve a crossword puzzle can result in positive, rewarding feelings, pleasure, which is one reason people enjoy doing them. But the challenge of doing them also affords mental stimulation, which is another reason people enjoy doing them.

And those same behavioral scientists, you allegedly refer to, actually advise people to do crossword puzzles to keep memory skills sharp. Crosswords draw on memory retrieval abilities. It's a way of exercising one's memory. It can also be fun, something you seem to be out of touch with.


Well, that explains why you seem so hell bent (if you will forgive the pun) on avoiding pleasure, fun, etc. Gotta watch out for Satan, don't we, spendi...

Wonderful! Just what I was looking for. Thank you Osso, and Butrflynet.

A man who has ordered a few hundred drone strikes [resulting in 4700+ murdered] was to be seen wringing his hands over the explosion in Boston and, as a side effect, putting the nation's riot squad on overtime.

Uhhh...hold the coffee...and anything else with caffeine in it. I'll have a glass of water and a bagel with some lox and cream cheese.

Has anyone done today's Times puzzle? If not...pass me the paper.

Have you ever completed the Time's puzzle Notable War Criminals and Terrorists Since 1930, Frank?

I'm hungry too. I'm going to have some quiche and a salad.


Here, Frank, you can have my copy of the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/

Thanks, Firefly.

Gad! I'm having such a great time collapsing virtually all of JTT's posts this morning. It's why I don't have her on 'ignore' -- it's so much more fun to just down-thumb almost every one of her posts!

JTT is a she? Hmmm.

Oh that looks so good. May I have the same please Wassau? And a glass of hemp milk to go with it?