Her work has appeared in several collections, including essay compilations like Crime and Criminals Opposing Viewpoints , and satires: Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul , and Billionaires for Bush: How to rule the world for fun and profit. Computer solitaire, originally packaged with Windows to make computers and mouse technique easier for new users to grasp, can become a huge time sink, even for people like me who flatter themselves that they're too smart and engaged with life to get hooked on it.
If the bulk of our psychological experiments in the U. There's not much room for debate about addiction's ability to impair in some brains whatever passes for individual autonomy. Emphasis here on the word "some. American individualism imagines a sovereign self free of adulterations like addiction and social control; but neuroscience questions whether this is possible.
Because addictions are dangerous and dehumanizing, our unexamined assumptions about them can make them more so. So tempting is it to blame biblical literalism for the Bible Belt's defects, that I have found a way to do it.
But the truly satanic force behind physical decay and moral perversion in the Bible-thumping states may be less grandiose: fish fingers, say, or chicken nuggets. Lynn Phillips. Show previous books Self-Loathing for Beginners.
How to Be a Mogul C. Opposing Viewpoints Series - Crime and Criminals paperback edition. Recent Posts. Before the Devil Knows You're Hooked. Taking to Drink. A Valentine's Day Proposition. Prepare to cut up a few scientific journals into valentines. It can include good sex, bad sex, safe sex, risky sex, sex alone or with others, sex with friends or strangers, sex with partners older or younger.
