Ok, so I'm writing this in MarsEdit, and though it looks kind of interesting, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing. Or why I'm doing it... Well, I guess that worked. Basically. Now if I could just get an image to upload. Wouldn't that be cool?

Note to RB: be sure to delete this one when you're done.

Well, no dice on the image thinger, but I did manage to rip of Doc's source for the Technorati "searchlet" you can see near the top of the right column. Seems to work fine, too. Call it an extended beta. Heh.

Ah, what the hell. clocke went out to buy coffee and he won't be back till after Starbucks opens (can you believe he supports those fatcat capitalist bastards?) So I might as well include this clip I came across today. With apologies to Don...

Some men are born charlatans, some achieve charlatanry, and some have charlatanry thrust upon them. Jung was decidedly not born a charlatan -- or at least, he was not one throughout the whole of his career. True, he grew up in a family with a more than average number of table-rappers, which no doubt inclined him later to the study of the esoteric (for it certainly never occurred to him to wonder why the esoteric was, in fact, esoteric), and was subjected in his youth to that Teutonic windiness which comes so easily, though no means inevitably, to those who think and write in the German language. There is nothing quite like esoteric windiness for creating a penumbra of profundity, to which bored society ladies are drawn like flies to dung: and this no doubt explains how he became the Madame Blavatsky of psychotherapy. At the same time, however, he received a thorough grounding in classics as well as in science, spoke four languages fluently, could read Latin as if it were his native tongue, was not bad at Greek, and contributed several expressions to our daily discourse -- complex, collective unconscious, archetypes, animus and anima, persona, introvert and extrovert -- which by itself is far more than most of us will ever achieve. This is not the same as saying, however, that he contributed to human knowledge: for it is perfectly possible to give names to non-existent entities.

from: Carl Jung: the Madame Blavatsky of psychotherapy by Anthony Daniels
source: New Criterion, 1 November 2003
via: HighBeam Research
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