Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Linking to Robison’s article, Kathy Shaidle describes Asperger’s as becoming “the Pluto of mental illnesses,” Robison himself writes that “TV is now forced to adapt to this new, Asperger’s-free reality.” But do they really? As the enormous Wikipedia-style “TV Tropes” Website points out, long after Sigmund Freud’s pioneering concepts have been rendered increasingly anathema amongst modern-day mental health professionals, all psychology remains Freudian on fictional TV. Similarly, I suspect Asperger’s will remain a popular shorthand on television for quite some time to come.
From all I’ve read about it, Asperger’s was obliterated because it became too embarrassing: What the “scientists” call “science,” is the product of a dust-up taking place periodically in great big arenas, involving not quite so much scientists, but advocates. And then this started to come to light. It isn’t really fair, because what was really embarrassing about it was that this charade was never unique to Asperger’s. It seems to have become, more-and-more, the way psychology is done — a few people do something differently from the way “everybody else” does it, and in that direction lies something that maybe could be & ought to be “diagnosed.” For fun and profit.
Related: What’s being “diagnosed,” when you get right down to it, is the one thing that might possibly pay off our debts.
It might be worth noticing, alongside that, that what is being elevated to leadership positions nowadays — quite consistently — is all the impulse-control deficiency and power-lusting that builds up that debt in the first place. I do see a connection between those two things…
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Gee, thank goodness the DSM is a living, breathing, “document”,
Subject to change, according to “usage”.
Unless the findings are “forbidden” from the language, as…um… offensive to
the sensativities of any who MAY respond by hurting people,breaking things, or otherwise engaging in public tantrums.
Ever see animal rights folks protesting in front of a Hell’s Angles clubhouse…twice?
- CaptDMO | 07/24/2013 @ 08:54Ever see folks demanding “fair” taxes from “the rich”, um.. “for the children”,outside of a cocaine/crack/heroin/meth/ kingpin’s crib?
Ever see a “progressive” with dirty fingernails?