February 7, 2026

Why my Substack newsletter is called "A Beta Brain:

My original Substack newsletter was simply called Hal Brown's Substack. This was the title that appeared above all the posts. While other writers like two of my favorites named their Substacks with creative names. Attorney and columnist Sabrina Haake calls hers the rhyming The Haake Take and psycholgical and neuroscientist Dr. Frank George calls his The Gaslight Report. I went though two names before coming up with "A Beta Brain." 

One was Hal Brown's Stressline. I chose this because decades age I had two websites called Stressline, one Cranberry Stressline (we used to grow cranberries for Ocean Spray) and the other Police Stressline (I was a reserve police officers for 20 years and had many officers in therapy). 

Then I thought one referencing Beta brain waves would be better. They are associated with active thinking, concentration, and alertness. They play a crucial role in cognitive functions like problem-solving and decision-making. I called the Substack "Brown's Beta brain waves."  

Then I realized there was more associated with the term "beta" than brain waves. There is also the beta personality which is contrasted with the aggressive alpha personality. The beta personality type is often characterized as friendly, nurturing, and sensitive, prioritizing cooperation and emotional connection over dominance. This is what led me to the current name: A Beta Brain. 

I am not wedded to keeping it, howver unless I come up with something better I will keep it.

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December 9, 2025

As if being a foul-mouthed sadistic malignant narcissist isn't enough, he's a foul-mouthed sadistic misogynistic malignant narcissist. He's crude, he's rude, he's shrewd, and they love him for this.

 

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As if being a foul-mouthed sadistic malignant narcissist isn't enough, he's a foul-mouthed sadistic misogynistic malignant narcissist.

He's crude, he's rude, he's shrewd, and they love him for this.



Below is my comment to this RawStory article:

Here’s the excerpt which promted me to go to Perchance AI Illustrator and ask for a cartoon of Trump with garbage coming out of his mouth.

But the president’s focus shifted to the reporter in question, and he pointed a finger.

“Hey, you’re going to have to take it easy with that thing,” he scolded. “It’s a government plane, but I like to take care of it.

Trump has repeatedly clashed with reporters in recent weeks, particularly women journalists. About a month ago, Trump snapped at Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey on Air Force One after she asked the president about the Jeffrey Epstein files. He responded by calling her a “piggy.”

Just before Thanksgiving, the president also called New York Times reporter Katie Rogers “ugly” in a Truth Social post.

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I also put a link to “Sadists ® US: Trump and The Dark Tetrad: t should be obvious that Trump is an example of someone who has all of the traits of The Dark Tetrad: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and sadism.” in my comment

Trump takes delight in cruelly mocking both men and women wh dare challenge his Royal Heinieness. If he gets tumescent being orally obnoxious to men, he gets positively wet when he does it to women.

This is the president who is a role model for these men and millions of others.

The two shown below cheered when he attacked Rep. Omar.

On CNN the man in the Persians for Trump t-shirt was shown pumping his fist above his head for more than five seconds.

These people don’t love him in spite of his being crude, rude and shrewd. They love him because he is crude, rude, and shrewd. I’d say that if he was an ordinary performer he could make a fortune taking his show on the road. Wait… come to think of it is is a performer and he has been taking his show on the road.

For example, in Pennsylvania yesterday, what to us was a cringeworthy performance, delighted his audience,

Related: Here’s an article about that speech:

An indication of this I observed that this is true in how, when he was talking about what he calls the Democratic hoax about affordability, he veered into a rant about how many dolls your daughter needs:

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I do what I can by protesting and writing these Substacks but how long will people like me even be allowed to do this?

Just a sample below is my Dec. 10th post:

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December 2, 2025

Please save me the trouble of reposting my Substacks here! By Hal M. Brown

 

It takes me time to copy each of my daily, or occasionally twice daily, Substack essays here on a Google Blogger platform. The formatting has to be changed and I have to do other tweaking. I'd much rather just put them online in one place.

If you read my essays here, as at least, from what I can tell in the stats, a few thousand of you do, it would take you no longer be able to read them on the Substack platform. They are 100% free. You can also make comments there. I usually reply to each comment.

I don't know whether to trust the viewer statistics because I don't understand why I have so many viewers from other countries;


 I'd appreciate it if you would read what I write here: https://halbrown.substack.com/

If you like my essays it is easy to send in your email address from any of my Substack posts. You will get a link each time I put a new one online. As with this website, my posts are always free. 

If you don't want to subscribe you can always do a web search. In Google, Hal Brown Substack works if you don't want to bookmark the website. Of course bookmarking in fine as well.

As the president of the U.S. says in his toxic Truth Social rants, thank you for your attention to this matter...


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Why my Substack newsletter is called "A Beta Brain:

My original Substack newsletter was simply called Hal Brown's Substack . This was the title that appeared above all the posts. While ot...