Yoo Hoo, Iranians!

Trumpeting secrets about el jefe being de riguer, I'm like on board! Dowd reveals

Maraniss’s bookdepicts Obama on an intense odyssey of self-discovery, moving toward defining himself less as a half-white man with white girlfriends than as a black man who wanted to be part of a black community. His New York girlfriend, Genevieve Cook, told Maraniss that Obama confessed to her that “he felt like an impostor. Because he was so white. There was hardly a black bone in his body.” When she predicted that his future might be with a black woman — “That lithe, bubbly, strong black lady is waiting somewhere!” she wrote in her journal — he told her “he doubted there were any black women he would feel truly comfortable with. I would tell him, ‘No, she is out there.’ ”

Being black since like 50 years ago is hip; make that 80 years ago if you're like Jewish in Philadelphia. So you have a kid graced with 'black like me' features raised by white people who has gotten to the top by adopting some of the manner.

In a discussion about the rivalry of Fort Worth with Dallas I recalled Dallas Public and Private: Aspects of an American City about Dallas before the Kennedy assassination, not so much an indictment as a period piece, a snapshot, which is quite good, motivated by the event. That led to events in Dallas and the September 11, 2011 Symphony performance of Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1 followed by Prokofiev's Symphony no. 5. On meeting the conductor later I told him that the Brahms seemed to mirror the German Way of Warof initiative and maneuver and the Prokofiev the Russian response. He seemed to indicate 'but of course.'

A Contemporary Discussion

As discussed in Volokh, the idea of homosexual marriage may presuppose that same or opposite sex object choice is a difference without further psychological implication. However it may be that homosexual object choice is a degree of narcissistic object choice which conveys more ego risks than a heterosexual choice. For instance there nay be a greater risk of guilt projected on to the object which leads to instances such as that of the gay porn star cited in Drudge today*, someone who chopped up another man and mailed his body parts. Certainly, some people psychologically may not have a choice in object and may be quite stable but encouraging viewing the choices as immaterial may be unfortunate for others. There are assumptions you are making as lawyers which are reductionistic necessarily.

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A nice Bible translation,The Contemporary English version

"Robert still supported Mary and was there for her whenever he could be, but he had pretty much moved on," it says. A Spanish proverb: He who grabs too much squeezes little; Quien mucho abarca poco aprieta. Poor Mary, 'a childhood friend of the Kennedy family,' she believed in Robert. She looked up to him and was disappointed. To paraphrase Brutus in Julius Caesar, 'the fault was not in her but in her stars,' but she couldn't see that Robert grabbed too much but squeezed too little as the proverb would have it. Or that is a potential narrative.

Orin Kerr at Volokh has enjoyed PopeHat which I am adding to my Links. One of their links as to 'consumer products that didn't disappoint' was pretty funny.

I have long enjoyed this medieval picture of melancholy which David Rosenberg put on the book's cover . The book seems like an analyst's explication not in the sense that it is a psychoanalytic insight but rather that it takes the extant material and gives a possible reality in the reflection.

Ann Althouse has been demonstrating the skills of a lawyer and a psychologist lately. Regarding the psychological portrayal, I commented at a nearby post.