Alterman, Eric. “Description Box for His Lecture at Google for his book, ‘The System v. Barack Obama’. (19 Apr 2011) YouTube. Obedient Cocksucker of the Democratic Party, A Hero Worship of a Politician, especially a President. Dumbass Cunt Joyce Carol Oates.

 In “KABUKI DEMOCRACY”, Eric Alterman argues that while the Obama presidency has undoubtedly been a disappointment from a progressive point of view, its failures aren’t due to a collapse of his political imagination, or to strategic errors during his first year of governance. Rather, the political system suffers from a series of structural bottlenecks that encourage transformative change while standing in the way of its progressive counterpart.

  Expanding on this thesis, KABUKI DEMOCRACY: The System v. Barack Obama deconstructs all aspects of the political system—from lobbying to the Supreme Court to the failure of the press to the prominence of anti- government ideology—to reveal how structural impediments have blocked Obama from carrying out his democratic mandate. Alterman offers a clear game plan for potential change, expounding on his belief that “with regard to almost every single one of our problems, we need better, smarter organizing at every level and a willingness on the part of liberals and leftists to work with what remains of the center to begin the process of reforms that are a beginning, rather than an endpoint in the process of societal transformation.”

  Blending incisive political analysis with a clear agenda for change, KABUKI DEMOCRACY cuts through the false promise offered by the transformative politics of hope, arguing that real reform will only come when accompanied by resurgent civic engagement.

  Eric Alterman is an American historian, journalist, author, media critic, blogger, and educator. His political weblog named Altercation was hosted by MSNBC.com from 2002 until 2006, moved to Media Matters for America until December 2008, and is now hosted by The Nation. He earned a B.A. in History and Government from Cornell University, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University.

Anon. Biography of George Armitage Miller. (11 Jul 2009) Kurzweil, Contributors. Retrieved from http://www.kurzweilai.net/george-a-miller.

  George A. Miller

  July 11, 2009

  George Armitage Miller was born February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1940 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alabama and in 1946 he received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University.

  At Harvard, during and after World War II, he studied speech production and perception. In 1948 C. E. Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication inspired a series of experiments measuring how far a listener’s expectations influence his perceptions. Miller summarized that work in 1951 in “Language and Communication,” a text that helped to establish psycholinguistics as an independent field of research in psychology. He subsequently tried to extend Shannon’s measure of information to explain short-term memory, work that resulted in a widely quoted (and often misquoted) paper, “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two.”

  Miller’s attempts to estimate the amount of information per word in conversational speech led him to Noam Chomsky, who showed him how the sequential predictability of speech follows from adherence to grammatical, not probabilistic, rules. The next decade was spent testing psychological implications of Chomsky’s theories. Some of those ideas found expression in 1960 in “Plans and the Structure of Behavior,” a book written jointly with E. Galanter and K. Pribram. In 1960 Miller was co-founder, along with J. S. Bruner, of the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies. On the basis of these activities, Miller is generally considered one of the fathers of modern cognitive psychology. In 1962 he was elected to the National Academy of Science.

  Miller visited The Rockefeller University in New York in 1967, and in 1968 decided to stay there as Professor of Experimental Psychology. In 1969 he was elected President of the American Psychological Association. By then his research interests had shifted from grammar to lexicon, and in 1976 “Language and Perception,” written with P. N. Johnson-Laird, presented a detailed hypothesis about the way lexical information is stored in a person’s long-term memory. Miller attempted to test some aspects of the hypothesis with studies of the development of language in young children; that project was summarized in 1977 in “Spontaneous Apprentices: Children and Language.” During this time, he served as a consultant to the Sloan Foundation in the program that helped to create the new field of cognitive science.

  In 1979 Miller moved to Princeton University, where he is now James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus. In 1986, in collaboration with Gilbert Harman, he established the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory. In 1990 he wrote “The Science of Words,” which won the William James Book Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association. In 1991 he was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bush.

  From 1989 to 1994 Miller served as Program Director of the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. His own research has produced WordNet, a lexical database that is widely used by computational linguists as part of natural language processing systems; Miller’s current interest is to use WordNet to identify the intended senses of polysemous words on the basis of their contexts of use.

Anon. “Kama Sutra” (20 Jan 2018) Wikipedia.

  The Kama Sutra (Sanskrit: कामसूत्र About this sound pronunciation (help·info), Kāmasūtra) is an ancient Indian Hindu[1][2] text written by Vātsyāyana. It is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour in Sanskrit literature.

  A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse.[3] It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" which is one of the four goals of Hindu life, means desire including sexual desire, the latter being the subject of the textbook, and "sūtra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual.

  Contrary to western popular perception, the Kama Sutra is not exclusively a sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life, and other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties of human life.[4][5] The Kama Sutra, in parts of the world, is presumed or depicted as a synonym for creative sexual positions; in reality, only 20% of the Kama Sutra is about sexual positions. The majority of the book, notes Jacob Levy,[6] is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad.[7]

  The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kāma Śāstra).[8]

  Historians believe the Kama Sutra to have been composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE.[9] John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.[10]

1.       Doniger, Wendy (2003). Kamasutra – Oxford World's Classics. Oxford University Press. p. i. ISBN 978-0-19-283982-4. The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, probably in North India and probably sometime in the third century

2.       Coltrane, Scott (1998). Gender and families. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8039-9036-4.

3.       Common misconceptions about Kama Sutra. "The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a tantric text. In opening with a discussion of the three aims of ancient Hindu life – dharma, artha and kama – Vatsyayana's purpose is to set kama, or enjoyment of the senses, in context. Thus dharma or virtuous living is the highest aim, artha, the amassing of wealth is next, and kama is the least of three." —Indra Sinha.

4.       Carroll, Janell (2009). Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity. Cengage Learning. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-495-60274-3.

5.       Devi, Chandi (2008). From Om to Orgasm: The Tantra Primer for Living in Bliss. AuthorHouse. p. 288. ISBN 978-1-4343-4960-6.

6.       Jacob Levy (2010), Kama sense marketing, iUniverse, ISBN 978-1440195563, see Introduction

7.       Alain Daniélou, The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text, ISBN 978-0892815258.

8.       For Kama Sutra as the most notable of the kāma śhāstra literature see: Flood (1996), p. 65.

9.       Sengupta, J. (2006). Refractions of Desire, Feminist Perspectives in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Michèle Roberts, and Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 21. ISBN 9788126906291. Retrieved 7 December 2014.

10.   John Keay (2010). India: A History: from the Earliest Civilisations to the Boom of the Twenty-first Century. Grove Press. pp. 81–103.