The news coverage about protests against Barack Obama during his visit to October 15 San Francisco visit was a bit lethargic.  It’s just not as much fun, I guess, when the protesters aren’t bad-mouthing Bush or pretending to be waterboarded.  However, I can offer you two offsets to that colorless coverage:  A great article from Sally Zelikovsky, one of the lead organizers in the Bay Area, and this video: Click here to view the embedded video.

Scene from Sony Pictures film “2012″ (photo from IMDB.com) We humans love a good scare, don’t we? Remember Y2K? All the computers in the world were supposed to do horrible things, banks were going to topple, governments who depended on PCs for their defense systems would vaporize, and The Osmands threatened to come back to prime time TV. Well, as we all know, none of it happened, although there have been a few sightings of Donnie and Marie. It turns out there were more problems with Windows Vista than with Y2K.

Prolegomenon : Oftentimes both Freud and Jung and their theories, and certainly their therapies, are avoided like the proverbial plague.  Why?  Well, they seek to cut right through to the heart of the matter.  People prefer avoidance – self-knowledge is a weighty, and indeed frightening, thing.  It is like a sun into which we dare not stare.  In a previous post I alluded to the flight from self-knowledge at the heart of the wonderful play All My Sons by the equally marvellous Arthur Miller .  Only the brave and/or the really desperate seek out psychotherapy in any of its incarnations.

CHICAGO — A former top aide to ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty to wire fraud Tuesday and promised to cooperate with prosecutors in the case involving the former governor in exchange for a lenient sentence. Alonzo “Lon” Monk, 51, Blagojevich’s one-time chief of staff, admitted that he schemed to shake down a racetrack owner for a $100,000 campaign contribution in exchange for the governor’s signature on a bill to help subsidize tracks.