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Most Recently: Dragged Down By The Stone

Posted on June 9, 2010

The subconscious is a shadowy beast.  We sense it’s there somewhere, but know little more about how it actually works than when Dr. Sigmund first made public his (somewhat fanciful in hindsight) speculations on the psyche in the 19th century.  But we do know that it is ignored at one’s own peril.  A good friend of mine, a clinical psychologist in practice, likes to characterize it as the part of you yelling “THE ROOF IS ON FIRE!”…except the screaming is in Yiddish and uses Yoda-esque subject:verb order inversion, to boot, with the occasional random word thrown in as well.  There’s something there you ought to know going on in there, but figuring out what can be more problematic than actually dealing with the root problem.

I’m open, then, to friendly reader suggestions as to what is motivating my subconscious to inflict the righteous wrath of Roger Waters upon the hapless (or not so hapless, depending on individual) ranks of BP representatives gamely navigating their employer through the disaster currently mushrooming in the gulf.

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