Neurological Correlates

Here are the titles of blog posts in my draft box, that I always meant to get around to writing, but never have:

Sociopaths are not gigolos, they are con men – this was after that German gagillionaire was blackmailed by that guy, and everyone said he’s a gigolo. No, a gigolo is paid, mutual consent, possibly considered violating the prostitution laws, but doesn’t resort to extortion. This was criminal.  And it’s still happening, apparently. But, the other thing, who cares about a sex tape any more? If that woman had a sex tape, good for her.  No one cares. Unless there was something interesting about it, I doubt anyone would watch it in LA county, anyway.  I wouldn’t have paid the guy off. The days of spilling the sex-tape beans in lieu of being paid off, I think, are over. I remember the first one from the mid 1990s — Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee — and Pamela Anderson had these white fingernails. That’s my major memory of it. It was the novelty of both the internets and the naughty tape.  But then there were a few others “leaked”.  There’s just too much interesting stuff out there for anyone to actually care, and frankly, it’s smarminess quotient is increasing now that everyone has an oops “leaked” sex tape. Plus, if the extortionist is actually in the sex tape, isn’t that self-defeating? Maybe not.  OK, this topic is very over.
Homo sacer – is that what sociopaths want? Even if they got everything they wanted, would that be enough?
Bringing A Shareholder Suit Is A Matter of Supreme Disinterest For Institutional Money Managers: I started to draft this up and then just stopped under the weight of knowing everyone is on the take.  The financial services industry is a giant racket.  Persons conducting an enterprise with a pattern of racketeering activity, as they say when prosecuting the mob.  The interesting thing to me:  the police and firefighter services pension funds were ripped off. This is probably scary to some extent to the execs in the office buildings.  One investment strategy: invest in whatever the police pension plans are investing in because my guess is that somewhere someone must know that “ripping off police pension plan” is easily within the top 10 of really bad ideas.
Growing white matter by juggling:  There was a paper on this . Aux Chateau Swivelchair we pounce on a good health tip when we see one. With bounded ability and unbounded enthusiasm, this involved about a weekend of  juggling with fruit. The kitchen floor ended up a total biohazard zone. With all that pumped white matter some of us figured we shouldn’t waste our new-found-smarts to bother to clean it up. This is probably the health econometric estimate:

increase in white matter ≤ increase in unhygienic living.