The Daily Drift
Today's horoscope says:If someone is intent on getting all they can -- and then some -- out of you, remind them politely but firmly that you can only give so much -- and that you are tapped out for now.
You're totally within your rights to insist that they back off and give you more room to breathe.
Though it's true that you're totally capable of dealing with multitasking, enough is enough for now.
Today is:
Today is Tuesday, July 13, the 194th day of 2010.
There are 171 days left in the year.
Today's unusual holidays or celebrations are:
Embrace Your Geekness Day
and
Gruntled Workers Day
Adolek Kohn’s dance at Auschwitz was a powerful and joyful statement, but it wasn’t the first of its kind. Groucho Marx visited his mother’s home town of Dornum, Germany in 1958. He found that the Nazis had destroyed Jewish graves and the records of Jewish residents. Marx then hired a car to take his travel group to Berlin.
It was Jung’s break with Freud that led to his own ‘descent into the unconscious’, a disturbing trip down the psyche’s rabbit hole from which he gathered the insights about the collective unconscious that would inform his own school of ‘analytical psychology’. He had entered a ‘creative illness’, unsure if he was going mad. In October 1913, not long after the split, Jung had, depending on your perspective, a vision or hallucination. While on a train, he suddenly saw a flood covering Europe, between the North Sea and the Alps. When it reached Switzerland, the mountains rose to protect his homeland, but in the waves he saw floating debris and bodies. Then the water turned to blood. The vision lasted an hour and seems to have been a dream that had invaded his waking consciousness. Having spent more than a decade treating mental patients who suffered from precisely such symptoms, Jung had reason to be concerned. He was ironically rather relieved the next summer when WWI broke out and he deduced that his vision had been a premonition of it. Yet the psychic tension continued. Eventually there came a point where Jung felt he could no longer fight off the sense of madness. He decided to let go. When he did, he landed in an eerie, subterranean world where he met strange intelligences that ‘lived’ in his mind. The experience was so upsetting that for a time Jung slept with a loaded pistol by his bed, ready to blow his brains out if the stress became too great. 
Are you a perfectionist? You may just be on your way to an early grave:
Why do blacks excel at running track and whites dominate in the swimming pool? Scientists discovered the secret to why some athletes are so good at their sports: it’s in their belly buttons!
Sometimes one might encounter a simulation of jousting at a Renaissance fair, but this medieval sport is now returning as a full-contact martial art. There are about 200 jousters around the world and 30 in North America, and as Dashka Slater writes in The New York Times, the sport is becoming increasingly authentic and dangerous:
Would you recognize the sound of your own mother if she called? Not Steve Royster – the man has one of the rarest and strangest disorder known to man: voice blindness.
Got milk? On the surface of it, there’s nothing healthier than a glass of milk – no preservatives, no artificial colors, no high-fructose corn syrup – just good ol’ nutritious milk … Or is it?
