Okay, friends, Americans, countrymen, I've a serious query for your consideration. A few months ago, my oldest friend and I had a bit too much champagne and she confessed she was in love with me and had certain ... physical feelings ... for me since 1996. This fit certain observations, on balance. The friendship is now weird and strained, in part because she has said she was drunk and she never had such feelings, ever, not the least bit, and she wants to sweep it under the rug. My question: are such drunken confessions usually true? And have you ever dealt with a friend who confessed such, then totally denied? My friend is not psychologically simple, indeed sometimes can be a bit "split personality." Yet I'm hard-pressed to tell anyone, "No, I think your consciousness is something other than what you say it is."

I've conquered the high blood pressure that was worrying me in the times of Stress-making Dependent Internet People around 2003-2005. From a horrifying 180/120 I've gotten to 119/70 with a resting heart rate of 54. : )

"If you've been a victim of a crime in the community, after calling police, please contact our captain, George Zimmerman." - The Retreat at Twin Lakes e-newsletter for February 2012

- http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

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My prediction of Haidt adding additional axes to the theory has been borne out - and it's a good one: Haidt has recently added a sixth fundamental value, Liberty/oppression: This foundation is about the feelings of reactance and resentment people feel toward those who dominate them and restrict their liberty. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt#Moral_Foundations_Theory

Blind men show preference for the same waist-hip ratio as sighted men: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18fob-Bergner-t.html?_r=2

... just looked it up again: “a god [he was, Memius,] [w]ho first and chief found out that plan of life Which now is called philosophy, and who By cunning craft, out of such mighty waves, Out of such mighty darkness, moored life In havens so serene, in light so clear.” – Lucretius