--Jan. 15, 2008. The Boston Globe’s Drake Bennett reports on the emerging field of “embodied cognition” which suggests that actions such as pacing the carpet or gesturing with one’s hands might clarify the thought process as much as anything going on in the brain. WSJ B12
--Jan 14 2008. The Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) has a number of exciting opportunities available for energetic, self-motivated US citizens to serve as INL Rule of Law Advisor at US Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq.—LAWYERS USA, p. 20
--3 Jan 2008. Unrestrained capitalism is, however, deeply corrosive of the “family values” that the moral right holds dear (it is hard to hold together families in a low-wage economy without parental help or affordable day care). Economic liberty often unleashes all sorts of other, more carnal liberties (it is no surprise that the rise of market fundamentalism in the US over the last four decades can be correlated with the proliferation of pornography, profane music and drugs).--Thomas Sugrue, LRB 3 Jan 2008, p 29
--1888. One cannot think and write, except sitting. (G. Flaubert) There I have caught you, nihilist! The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit. Only thoughts reached by walking have value.—Nietzsche, TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS, sec. 34
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