>> The latte-sipper as freaky liberal. Why’s “freakiness is associated with froth and whip”? Steve McNutt does a survey to find out. Summary:
Of the nine people I spoke with who identified themselves as liberal, six of them were latte-drinkers…. Everyone I spoke with outside of Potomac Adventist Book & Health Food Store identified as conservative, but four of them like lattes.
Read on for “The correlation coefficient relating the number of Starbucks locations to Obama voting.” (via 3qd)
>> Sex in Crisis: How the Religious Right Is Trying to Ruin Sex for Everyone. “The Religious Right was most effective where it was able to formulate its arguments in secular terms,” i.e. the language of psychological health.
Over and over, young people are told that self-restraint is self-empowerment. Scholastic or athletic achievement is presented as mutually exclusive with sexual activity; the prospects for a strong and happy future marriage are said to be in inverse relationship to premarital experience….
The refurbished focus on psychological damage in sexually conservative arguments manages to lend to the current state of conversation a sense that it is both pro-woman and pro-equality — even when it is neither.
That’s from an excerpt of Dagmar Herzog’s Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics. (via 3qd)
>> Creative people have paradoxical sexual energy? In a Psychology Today article titled “Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality”:
They seem to have quite a strong dose of eros, or generalized libidinal energy, which some express directly into sexuality. At the same time, a certain spartan celibacy is also a part of their makeup; continence tends to accompany superior achievement. Without eros, it would be difficult to take life on with vigor; without restraint, the energy could easily dissipate.
That’s an excerpt from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People. (via kottke)
>> The greenest way to drink your coffee in the office, explained by Slate’s Green Lantern. Step 1: reuse an old mug.
Photo by ChrisB in SEA
Quick! We need to open more Starbucks in Ohio and Florida!
Comment by Don Hosek — September 22, 2008 @ 9:37 am
Ha! I’d like to see the correlation coefficient relating the number of indie coffee shops to Obama voting :)
Comment by Siel — September 22, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Enjoyed the post, though I don’t know that I can swallow (pun intended) the correlation between coffee and sex… though I can agree with the artist thing. Perhaps it’s all because I am a tea-drinking bleeding-heart-liberal sex-crazed artist myself.
Comment by Joe Linton — September 23, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
Tea’s for wanna be artists! :P Or at least wanna-be bloggers (i.e. bloggers who don’t update LA creek freak often enough –).
Comment by Siel — October 7, 2008 @ 12:49 am