Michelle Malkin's asymmetrical face.

I've been thinking about what your face says about you a lot lately, and noticed that many people have strikingly asymmetrical faces. You don't usually notice it in person, but in pictures it can be quite obvious.

One comment on Sadly, No! suggests an adage that the right side is how you want people to see you, the left how you really are (or vice versa). Interesting idea.

I wonder how the left-brain/right-brain stuff affects your face. With me, one side tends to look more "serious", while the other side seems to show more emotion. Could our faces become less symmetrical over time if we tend to hide our true feelings? Can you trust someone who's left-face doesn't match the right?

One famous asymmetrical face belongs to Alfred E. Neuman.

Is the resemblance a coincidence?

It strikes me that when the archetype for a fool, slacker, clown-prince becomes interchangeable with the supposed leader of the free world, we really have reached a tipping point of sorts.

Fiction writing ClearlyExplained.Com

Okay, here's my entrance into writing fiction. We'll see where this goes.

http://clearlyexplained.com/culture/arts/fictionwriting.html

Global Warming Hits New Orleans: The Controversy After the Storm

Global Warming Hits New Orleans: The Controversy After the Storm

Jeremy Rifkin tells it like it is.

Just Saw a Crappy Movie

Yesterday I got to see a special screening of "Just Like Heaven", the new flick with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. It's typically horrendous Hollywood fare, and wouldn't be worth mentioning if not for the theme which oh-so-subtly summons up the ghost of Terry Schiavo.

It's no surprise that in the film the girlfriend in the coma is perfectly healthy, except for her persistent snoozing, and yet evil forces conspire to pull the plug before her spirit can hop back into her body.

I cringe at the thought of people taking this movie as a life lesson.

Think Progress - KATRINA TIMELINE

Ugh.

The Cloth of the New American Reality

The cloth of the New American Reality is woven very tightly.

With recent events in mind, it's natural to shake your head in disbelief at the patterns that are now coming into focus.

Controversies are being settled, and conspiracy theories are becoming common beliefs.

Superstition is seemingly at an all-time high. People and nations are searching for identity.

Conflict is endemic.

Fear is all-encompassing.

The relationships between people, organizations, institutions and history are visible for the first time. The changes in the environment pull these patterns into view. As the cloth stretches, the shapes on its surface change and come into focus. Ground into figure.

In the south today we witness thousands of poor, black people left homeless and crying out to the world for help, and their own president flies over and offers little more than words.