More favorite photos of the Presidents (and one First Lady)

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

      President Gerald Ford greets Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar at the White House

Not sure what point WJC was making here

A collage of President cut-outs

President Teddy Roosevelt laughs

President Dubyah

Two Presidents: Bill Clinton meets JFK on a Boy Scout trip to Washington D.C.

One of my favorites - Gerald Ford near the end of his life with Bill Clinton

JFK attempts to calm VP LBJ down

Dick Nixon gets The Johnson Treatment

LBJ's good friend Abe Fortas also gets The Johnson Treatment

A truly bizarre photo of Dick Nixon taken in the 1960 Presidential Campaign

Nancy Reagan, with creepy bunnies

Dick Nixon at one of the most exclusive bowling alleys in the world - at the White House

Supermodels invade the Reagan White House

Dance and song line at the Reagan White House with Shirley Jones and the late Marvin Hammlisch

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Psychopathy self-test

By Jack Brummet, Behavioral Sciences Editor

Are you a psychopath? Take this self-test and find out.  But, remember. . .no cheating.  Not that a psychopath would have any compunction about cheating.

Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist-Revised is the psycho-diagnostic tool most commonly used to assess Psychopathy.

Disclaimer: Your scores may have important consequences for your future, and this test should only be considered valid if administered by a qualified and experienced clinician under controlled conditions. As a life-long student and observer of abnormal psychology, I am emminently qualified to administer the test (further disclaimer: I would also consider myself qualified to perform surgery, having carved a few birds and beasts over the years). And what could be a more controlled environment than All This Is That?  So grab your pencils and let's get started.

Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

This clinical rating scale contains 20 items. Each item is scored on a three-point (0, 1, 2) scale according to  a semi-structured interview. A value of 0 is assigned if the item does not apply, 1 if it applies somewhat, and 2 if it fully applies. The items are as follows:

0 1 2 Glibness/superficial charm
0 1 2  Grandiose sense of self-worth
0 1 2  Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
0 1 2  Pathological lying
0 1 2  Conning/manipulative
0 1 2  Lack of remorse or guilt
0 1 2  Shallow affect
0 1 2  Callous/lack of empathy
0 1 2  Parasitic lifestyle
0 1 2  Poor behavioral controls
0 1 2  Promiscuous sexual behavior
0 1 2  Early behavioral problems
0 1 2  Lack of realistic, long-term goals
0 1 2  Impulsivity
0 1 2  Irresponsibility
0 1 2  Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
0 1 2  Many short-term marital relationships
0 1 2  Juvenile delinquency
0 1 2  Revocation of conditional release
0 1 2  Criminal versatility

The cutoff for psychopathy is 30 points or greater, although some studies recommend 25. If you scored even over 10, I'm not saying you're ready for the laughing academy, but I'm not sure I want to have you  babysit my children either.

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The high mortality rate of Presidents (18.2%)

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

With an 18.2% mortality rate, the occupation of being President is far riskier than coal mining, law enforcement, working on a bomb squad, or as a daredevil.  Of the 44 Presidents, eight went out the door feet first; four from natural causes and four from assassination.  Warren Gamaliel Harding (POTUS 29), pictured below, died of a heart attack after two scandal-filled years in office.

POTUS	President	Days in office	Date of death	Cause of death	Age
9	William Henry Harrison	31	4/4/1841	Pneumonia/pleurisy	68
12	Zachary Taylor	491	7/9/1850	Acute Gastroenteritis	65
16	Abraham Lincoln	1,503	4/15/1865	Assassinated	56
20	James A. Garfield	199	9/9/1881	Assassinated	49
25	William McKinley	1,654	9/14/01	Assassinated	58
29	Warren G. Harding	881	8/2/23	Heart attack	57
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	4,422	4/12/45	Cerebral hemorrhage	63
35	John F. Kennedy	1,036	11/22/63	Assassinated	46

 

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Alien Lore No. 239 - Cattle abduction

From a Tumblr blog. . .

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A most excellent photograph of the 29th President of the United States, Warren G. Harding

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

Warren G. Harding was one of the most interesting, and most corrupt Presidents of the United States ever.  He was the first incumbent Senator ever to be elected President.  He was only President for a little over two years when he keeled over and died, not long after the Teapot Dome scandal broke.  History has not looked on his Presidency favorably, although his administration had several notable accomplishments, including halving the unemployment rate.

Historians have almost never given Harding positive presidential reviews, mainly due to the numerous scandals that enveloped his administration.  His presidency has therefore usually been ranked very low on the Presidential scale...right near the bottom.  The Wikipedia entry for Harding is pretty well-balanced captures both his highs and lows.  Check it out here. 

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A door performs an impression of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew

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Painting: robot rampage

By Jack Brummet

[analog-digital, w/ original robot hand-drawn]

click to enlarge

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Russian Visas

By Jack Brummet, Travel Editor

Applying for a Russian visa has been a Kafkaesque experience.  The incredibly strange rules and procedures, the necessity of never actually saying what you will be doing in Russia; the need for an invitation from The Kremlin, and then the invite Telex, where the Russians let their embassy know they can talk to you.  This is followed by scads more paperwork and documents, some of which must be very carefully worded as well as having to, at times, actually paste in the actual Russian phrases.  And any whiff of a variant, or an error sends you to the back of the line.

But, as weird as this has been, it's nothing like what the Aussies have to go through.  What could they have possibly done to the Russians that provoked this?:

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Poem: Tetuan

By Jack Brummet

1

The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on
And clouds drape themselves
Around corners of sky.

2
A terra cotta sebsi sizzles
With Rif Mountain leaf.
The muzzein and night prayers
Buzz in the mosque.

3
Fog drifts into the room.
His anxious heart echoes
The drumbeats from the medina
As his brain unfolds.

4
A circle of swallows
Spins outside the window.
The air thickens with fiction
And sorcery.

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Faces No.309 - the lunch crowd at Purple

by Jack Brummet 

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The Rivington's Papa Oom Mow Mow - mashed up

By Jack Brummet, Music History Editor 

 This is seriously a messed up and great mash-up.  Enjoy.


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Digital Art: Passage

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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