We are a globeful of dopamine addicts. We endlessly seek and never find the newest new thing. Slate: Seeking Seeking. You can’t stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges’ instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don’t even care about. Nina…
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Interesting and disturbing, my rep voted with the Repub majority on that Schiavo bill. Really, Melissa? You thought that’s what we wanted for Terry? ProgressivePunch : S. 686. Health Care/Vote on Bill to Grant Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo the Right to Pursue in Federal Court Their Case to Have Her Feeding Tube Re-Inserted (2005 House Roll Call 90) / Bean, Melissa