Highest Five

The thought of having an endoscope passed through your anus, up your rectum and into your colon can be dreadfully intimidating, but with colon cancer being such a widespread disease that has claimed its victims with few symptoms and warning signs, taking the uncomfortable test has proved most effective in the prevention and diagnosis of various medical problems related to the colon. And the good news is, in this technologically advanced world we live in today, now your doctor can colonoscopize you, without the insertion of an invasive tube between your hams, well, mostly.

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For those of you who don’t remember me, which probably includes all of you, I’m the dude who nearly retreated to the safety of the witness relocation program because a girl I was dating cyberstalked the crap out of me.  You can read all about how a woman, armed with the left click button of a mouse invaded my space here.

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Nothing unsettles a country’s politics and people like the assassination of their leader. That leader doesn’t always have to be political; often it’s just a strong and influential voice, but that person’s death can send shock waves through a country and sometimes the international community at large. As we near the anniversary of the assassination of JFK, here’s a short list of the most politically disastrous assassinations in history.

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Depression is a word people often use quite loosely in our society to describe feeling down, sad and unhappy. Though these are certainly accurate symptoms of depression, when speaking of depression in a clinical sense, it actually goes much deeper. Depression is a serious medical illness, and studies show that by the year 2020 depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease. Pretty alarming statistics for thinking that depression is no more than an old case of the blues.

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To be honest I couldn’t decide whether to call these the “best” falls in soccer or the “worst.”  They’re the best in terms of how ridiculously fake they are.  These players are the “best” at crumbling when anyone comes within a six meter radius of their delicate selves.  At the same time they are some of the worst attempts to gain advantage in a sport through cheating.  The following clips contain some of the worst acting you’ll ever see, from athletes who are the best at demonstrating how abs of steel do nothing to stop them from wilting like tulip petals. You’ll want a multi-viewer just to judge who’s worse.

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I’ve often wondered if some element of cuckoo was necessary to create astonishing works of art, staggering pieces of writing or masterful musical compositions. This is why I’ve decided to delve a little deeper into hallucinations that have impacted a creators’ work. Hallucinations can be caused by many things aside from dropping acid or drinking mushroom tea. If you asked Freud, he’d tell you that hallucinations are the projection of our unconscious desires, wishes and thoughts. Hallucinations can also be the product of particular mental disorders, sleep deprivation as well as psychosis, and there is unfortunately no inventory software to help get these visions in order. This is no small topic so I’m writing this as a start-off point to a subject I am deeply fascinated by and would like to know more about. Any additional information on other famous hallucinations are encouraged, as well as discussion on whether or not you believe that “being out of one’s mind” has any influence (good or bad) on an artist’s work.

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