post here when you have it

4/5/2010 3:18:45 PM

How does one post at infinite intervals

Its why I get much bigger kick out of rooting against Carolina than for State

4/5/2010 3:21:09 PM

Shadenfreude. From the German words, Schaden and Freude, damage and joy. It means to take spiteful, malicious delight in the misfortune of others. We used to dismiss this as simply an ugly side of human nature, but it is much much more than that. Recently a Stanford professor actually captured Schadenfreude on a brain scan. It’s a physiological medical phenomenon. When we see others fall it sometimes causes a chemical to be released in the dorsal striatum of the brain which actually causes us to feel pleasure. If you watch the news or read the papers, which of course you don’t because the Judge said not to, but if you did, you would see the undeniable delicious joy of the media and the public over Kelly Nolan’s plight. I have no doubt that you want Kelly Nolan to be punished. She married for money, she had an affair, she carried on naked in the pool with her boyfriend. She’s cold, materialistic, unlikable, and it might bring you all pleasure to see her go to jail. But as for evidence to establish that she committed a murder beyond all reasonable doubt? It just isn’t there. The only possible route to a guilty verdict here is Schadenfreude.

4/5/2010 3:24:11 PM

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"How does one post at infinite intervals"

4/5/2010 3:37:12 PM

I'm taking a malicious pleasure in the fact that this thread has not taken off

4/5/2010 5:40:41 PM

Easy. Rooting against the Patriots (or especially... rooting for the Colts).

(ex: Wearing a Giants shirt to my neighbor's Superbowl party during the Pats' 16-1 season)

4/5/2010 6:02:29 PM