] An Egyptian baby born with two heads was
] in stable condition on Sunday after doctors at a
] provincial hospital removed one of the heads in a 13-hour
] operation

] Manar was born with a rare condition known as craniopagus
] parasiticus, which occurs when an embryo begins to split
] into identical twins but fails to complete the process.
] One of the conjoined twins fails to develop fully in the
] womb.

] As in the case of a girl who died after similar surgery
] in the Dominican Republic a year ago, the second twin had
] developed no body. The head that was removed from Manar
] had been capable of smiling and blinking but not
] independent life.

Wow.

Baby stable after second head removed

A little more insanity...

Homeschool group says police used excessive force

] Occasionally people run across fairly funny Engrish on
] their own computers.

This cracks me up.

Computer | Index

"There's no way GOD is responsible for something that beautiful."

Have you ever looked at something and thought this?

Is it true?

This week's Onion features a diffrent take on the sappy "Love Coupons" that we're encouraged to exchange on Valentine's Day.

Onion Love Coupons

] As part of an extensive, in-depth interview, a trained
] examiner rates the offender on a 20-item personality
] test. The items include glibness and superficial charm,
] grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to
] boredom and emotional vacuity. The subjects earn zero
] points if the description is not applicable, two points
] if it is highly applicable, and one if it is somewhat or
] sometimes true.

] The psychologist who devised the checklist, Dr. Robert
] Hare, a professor emeritus at the University of British
] Columbia in Vancouver, said that average total scores
] varied from below five in the general population to the
] low 20's in prison populations, to a range of 30 to 40 -
] highly psychopathic - in predatory killers. In a series
] of studies, criminologists have found that people who
] score in the high range are two to four times as likely
] as other prisoners to commit another crime when released.
] More than 90 percent of the men and a few women at the
] top of Dr. Stone's hierarchy qualify as psychopaths.

] In recent years, neuroscientists have found evidence that
] psychopathy scores reflect physical differences in brain
] function. Last April, Canadian and American researchers
] reported in a brain-imaging study that psychopaths
] processed certain abstract words - grace, future, power,
] for example - differently from nonpsychopaths.

] In addition, preliminary findings from new imaging
] research have revealed apparent oddities in the way
] psychopaths mentally process certain photographs, like
] graphic depictions of accident scenes.

] No one knows how significant these differences are, or
] whether they are a result of genetic or social factors.
] Broken homes and childhood trauma are common among brutal
] killers; so is malignant narcissism, a personality type
] characterized not only by grandiosity but by fantasies of
] unlimited power and success, a deep sense of entitlement,
] and a need for excessive admiration.

] "There is a group we call lethal predators, who are
] psychopathic, sadistic, and sane, and people have said
] this is approaching a measure of evil, and with good
] reason," Dr. Hare said. "What I would say is that there
] are some people for whom evil acts - what we would
] consider evil acts - are no big deal. And I agree with
] Michael Stone that the circumstances and context are less
] important than who they are."

This is only a piece of a three page article discussing the issue of what determines if someone is evil.

What determines who is 'Evil'

Situation:
you are driving down the road or stopped at a stop light and when you glance around you see a woman sitting alone in her car crying her eyes out.

what is your reaction?

Do you even give it a second thought?

What do you think about?

How does it make you feel?

Finally!
It's happening!
As I slumber in the dark
I can sense it in my dreams
Every night it seeps out bit by bit
When I wake I feel eerily aware
My head throbs from the realization of the loss that has occurred
I am entangled in lethargy
My body aches from the void
The excitement is unbearable
I want it to be today!
Now!
There’s a need for it to be over
It is no longer bearable
My sanity begins to fade w/ each piece that slips away
I want to speed it up
I want to slow it down
I want it over
I want it to end
I long to go on to the next
This society is so disappointing; it ignites in me such a great flame of disgust
Whenever I let go, my mind begins to wander
When it finally drifts to this point; the realization of how the world has shut its eyes and ears comes to me in a wave of nausea
My head is spinning
Numerous intellectual minds were suppressed and rejected because they’re “different” or “not normal”
If you don’t fit “their” little mold you are then doomed to live your life in frustration
I have been stuck in purgatory for seventeen years
The knowledge that I am about to be freed shall make me explode
The screams are getting louder
They come from the depths of my soul
They become harder and harder to suppress by the minute
I am suffocating!
I can’t breath!
It’s getting darker!
It’s OVER!
Finally
A sigh of relief, then sleep.

] The seemingly interminable questioning had already lasted
] for hours. 'I needed the toilet,' Mubanga said, 'and I
] asked the interrogator to let me go. But he just said,
] "you'll go when I say so". I told him he had five minutes
] to get me to the toilet or I was going to go on the
] floor. He left the room. Finally, I squirmed across the
] floor and did it in the corner, trying to minimise the
] mess. I suppose he was watching through a one-way mirror
] or the CCTV camera. He comes back with a mop and dips it
] in the pool of urine. Then he starts covering me with my
] own waste, like he's using a big paintbrush, working
] methodically, beginning with my feet and ankles and
] working his way up my legs. All the while he's racially
] abusing me, cussing me: "Oh, the poor little negro, the
] poor little nigger." He seemed to think it was funny.'

] Yet Mubanga, though traumatised by his ordeal, believes
] he stayed sane partly because of his growing religious
] faith, and partly because of his rapping. He has a
] provisional title for the album he'd like to record:
] Detainee . He also has a stage name - 10,007, his
] Guantanamo prisoner number. The content of his work is
] strongly political. There were times, Mubanga said, 'that
] I wanted to explode. And when I did, I tried to remember
] Allah, not to use aggression in that way. I never fought
] any of the guards, I never spat at them, or like some
] prisoners did, threw a packet of faeces. A lot of the
] time you go on to autopilot and you just have to tell
] yourself you're still here, it is happening, it is real.
] The golden rule a lot of us had is, if you don't feel
] tired, don't force yourself to sleep, stay active. That's
] why I made myself learn Arabic.

The Observer | How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay

] Falling in love may be a great feeling but the next time you feel
] lovesick,missing your sweetheart, rush straight to a doctor as now
] the doctors have warned that the throes of passion should
] be seen as a potentially fatal medical disorder.

] Psychologists say that "lovesickness" is a genuine
] disease that needs more awareness and diagnosis and those
] little actions that are normally seen as symptoms of the
] first flush of love like, buying presents, waiting by the
] phone for a call or making a bit of an effort before a
] date, may actually be signs of deep-rooted problems to
] come.

] According to the Independent, in a report in The
] Psychologist magazine, Tallis has suggested that the
] effects of being lovesick could be described in the
] latest diagnostic terms with its symptoms including
] mania, such as an elevated mood and inflated self-esteem,
] or depression, revealing itself as tearfulness and
] insomnia.

] Aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder can also be
] found in those experiencing lovesickness, such as
] preoccupation and obsessively checking for text messages
] and e-mails.

] "The average clinical psychologist will not receive
] referral letters from GPs and psychiatrists mentioning
] lovesickness.However, careful examination of the
] sanitised language will reveal that lovesickness may well
] be the underlying problem. Many people are referred for
] help who cannot cope with the intensity of love, have
] been destabilised by falling in love, or who suffer on
] account of their love being unrequited," Tallis was
] quoted by the paper, as saying.

] And all this can lead a person to commit suicide, warns
] Tallis.

Now you can't say you didn't know that falling in love causes mental illness to occur.

Falling in love can kill you!