The Shaking Knee

Compulsive Disclosure Disorder

Just wanted to get a placeholder in here. I've been using a term for the past few years to describe my bizarre need to blab about anything and everything to anyone who will listen. I tell people not to tell me secrets. I tell my wife she'll never have to worry about me keeping an affair from her. I tell people things. I can't help it. Does that make me a bad person?

Anyway, I call it Compulsive Disclosure Disorder, and I was sure I wasn't the first person to use the term. But a quick google search turned up nothing. So I'm calling myself the inventor of this disorder, and one of its many victims. And I believe that in this, the era of blogs and Facebook pages (okay, Web 2.0 if you must), I think it will become increasingly common. Because it's never been easier to tell more people your inner monologue, no matter how mundane.

So there it is.

And here's my latest post on the GIO blog, named, appropriately, Compulsive Disclosure Disorder.

Something New, Something Old

Here's a look at my latest for MSN.com, a piece on how the recent advances in stem cell research are being treated in the presidential race...

The political debate over stem cell research has always been complicated. Esoteric twists and turns of science, ethics, and law have conspired to make it one of the most intellectually challenging issues of our time. But with a series of rapid-fire technological advances in the field hitting the headlines over the past six months, the average voter now practically needs an advanced degree in cell biology just to keep up.

Click here to read more....

Bottom line is that the Bush continues to favor religion over science (or even politics for that matter.) And that really pisses me off.