Monthly Archives: December 2009

When behaviors can be predicted in advance, those behaviors are not sentient, they are not the result of free will and choice: they are every bit as spontaneous as the bell response of Pavlov’s dog. Continue reading →

But this was the essay that earned me the undying enmity of the nasty lady at North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California, who seems to be as effetely and impudently snobbish as she are geographically challenged. At any event, said principal drew herself into a huff, and I was dismissed from further intercourse with the oxymoronically named “North Atlantic Books.” Continue reading →