Everett Tucker

Final Grades:

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:39 -0400

I got four A+’s this semester! :)

nods

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:24:22 -0400

*nods*

Working out & listening to Talib Kweli’s new Prisoner...

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:15:43 -0400

Working out & listening to Talib Kweli’s new Prisoner of Conscious album.

Watching Bill Maher get “owned by #GlennGreenwald over...

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:12:19 -0400

Watching Bill Maher get “owned by #GlennGreenwald over #benghazi and interventionism.” (99ne.ws)

If you like all my pics you can request a shoutout via kik...

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:54:00 -0400

If you like all my pics you can request a shoutout via kik @_the_cuckold_ #instagram

"I have a libertarian roommate that supports indigenous culture. …just Germany’s, though."

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:40:37 -0400

“I have a libertarian roommate that supports indigenous culture. …just Germany’s, though.”

- Everett Tucker

NBC renews Community for 5th Season!...

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:03:41 -0400

NBC renews Community for 5th Season! #sixseasonsandweloveyoudanharmon #sixseasonsandamovie #evilabed

Internet Sales Tax Bill Passes

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:07:52 -0400

Washington Post: U.S. Senate passes traditional-retailer-lobbied Internet sales tax bill with vote of 69 to 27

Final MKTG 203 Grade

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:47:08 -0400

Final grade for Mktg 203, Introduction to Marketing = 101.8% :)

Extra Credit FTW

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:31:07 -0400

Final grade for Govt 150, American Political Issues = 102.6%

:)

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:49:23 -0400

Spring 2013 Political Science Classes = Check!

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:40:41 -0400

Boom. Final took about 40 minutes. Done with Govt 100, American National Government and Govt 150, American Political Issues. :)

Nice......

Fri, 03 May 2013 22:20:52 -0400

Alright, finished off my American National Government class with the final exam today. Hope the professor takes the time to add “+” to my A. :)

Scientific American: Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:33:17 -0400

Sander van der Linden, in a Scientific American post, reviews the environment of conspiracism and psychology detailing the correlates with adhering to the conspiracist world-view as: believing in other contradictory conspiracies; “higher-order beliefs” (such as general distrust of authority); rejection of mainstream science; and disengagement from society and politics, which they attribute (to some degree) to “fundamental attribution error,” where people are biased towards seeing most events as intentional. Sander makes an interesting point about conspiracy memes and culture, softening the negative correlates in the article:

“Yet, such pathological explanations have proven to be widely insufficient because conspiracy theories are not just the implausible visions of a paranoid minority. For example, a national poll released just this month reports that 37 percent of Americans believe that global warming is a hoax, 21 percent think that the US government is covering up evidence of alien existence and 28 percent believe a secret elite power with a globalist agenda is conspiring to rule the world.”

This ties in with my recent paper on psychological religious disorders [http://mys.tc/2m4], where I found that clinicians could only diagnose belief as delusion if it wasn’t one “…ordinarily accepted by other members of the individual’s culture or subculture (e.g., it is not an article of religious faith).” Interesting read. Check it out: http://mys.tc/2m7

"After everything I’ve been through, the last thing I’m going to apologize for is my..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:39:45 -0400

““After everything I’ve been through, the last thing I’m going to apologize for is my paranoia””

- Richard Finney

Starting to look pretty grizzly… I’m not shaving...

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:35:42 -0400

Starting to look pretty grizzly… I’m not shaving till my last final on may 8th. #weirdbeard #onstrike #protestbeard #lazyasfuck

FBI wants mandatory backdoor into Facebook and Google

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:19:35 -0400

In what the FBI’s lawyers call the “going dark” problem, they claim without mandatory “wiretapping backdoors” the FBI would be forced to shut down investigations, with proposals for “…a kind of digital-age wiretap that could read, for instance, Facebook messages or Gchats.”

Read at Ars Technica http://mys.tc/2m6

“We won’t be safe til we kill all the fuckin’...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:46:21 -0400

“We won’t be safe til we kill all the fuckin’ radicals who think that killin’ civilized people is what god wants them to do” (by Mr. Fish, http://clowncrack.com).

Christian Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:26:00 -0400

Christian Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism:

In the most interesting anthropological / american history article I’ve read in a while, Joseph Stromberg of Smithsonian Magazine details how English settlers in the “American” Jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism during the “Starving Time,” for the first time giving physical evidence to written allusions of cannibalism [and explicit mentions of consuming dug-up corpses] by the settlers themselves, via the remains of a 14-year-old girl bearing the marks of butchering.

Read at Smithsonian Mag. | http://mys.tc/2m5

Religion as a psychological disorder?

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:37:00 -0400

Should psychologists adopt the schemata of religious ideology to fulfill the goals of psychological science?

Religion and psychology have a contentious past. As modern psychologists are distancing themselves from Freud’s psychoanalytic examination of religion(s), we are discovering that the culture of religion, and the belief it creates, is ripe for a grounded and scientific analysis by way of neurobiology, behaviorism, and peer-reviewed empirical research.

Read at Mystic Politics: Religion as a psychological disorder?