Monday, November 23, 2009

Negative Future Projection and Medicare Equality for All

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How we look at things matters. How we choose to look at things matters. How we think about things matters. If we assume, as our fearless une...
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More Billionaires for WealthCare Teabag Goodness

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Join the Billionaires for WealthCare! What's so bad about an apple a day, eh?
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Illness Industry: Sometimes Less Is More, Sometimes More is More. Profitable.

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From: the Heart Scan blog.

Shut up, about Stupak, ladies. There are way more important things to work on such as -- [fill in blank].

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Thanks to Corrente, I've discovered a new blog, Historiann. Where I found this comment: Emma on 22 Nov 2009 at 11:09 am # The one time ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Give Arthur Silber Money, Please

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Arthur Silber says what I think, only better. And says what I feel about the normalization of violence, only better. He's right. He dese...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Jeff Zeig on Milton H. Erickson

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And now for something completely different. Again.
Monday, November 16, 2009

Department of Why How We Look at Things Matters

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Once a year, in the weeks before Thanksgiving, I go to the local knife-sharpener to get my knives sharpened. The knife-sharpener is a vet w...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

What's Wrong With This Picture?

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Simmer down, Stupak haters. Ok, this is a test. This is not only a test. It is a Rorschach. 1. What am I testing for? 2. How many instanc...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Stupak Is As Stupak Does

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Periodically, when I'm feeling down, I launch attacks against the government-forced maternity crowd. And I launch attacks against the s...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Dept. of Just How Stupid Can You Get?

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Army doctors worried that Hasan was psychotic. "Army doctors worried that Hasan was psychotic"? Psychotic = he's hearing voic...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Something for Veterans' Day

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Dulce et Decorum Est Bent double, like of old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the ha...

Vicarious Trauma, Media Frames, Numbing and Avoidance

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Article on vicarious traumatization. With commentary. As an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

IOU

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Ok, I'm back from DC. Almost off to work. This is a blogging IOU. Will write about Americans United for the Separation of Church and St...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Al-Jazeera on Fort Hood Shootings

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Deaths in US army base shooting . . . Lieutenant-General Bob Cone, the base's commanding officer, said the shooting took place at about ...

No Sense in the Madness of Crowds

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The Fort Hood shootings continue to whip up that ol' mob mentality. You can't tell facts from mere foamings at the mouth. Yesterda...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Fort Hood Shooter Said to Be Army Psychiatrist

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. Army Major said to be psychiatrist treating traumatic stress who was about to be deployed to Iraq. He had worked at Walter Reed. Just pro...
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What Vast-Left Said

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The audacity of Plouffe.

Yes, I'm Still Here

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Yes, I'm still here, but I can't think of anything to write about. Well, sure I can, I already Googled the child abuse du jour case...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Another Shameless Sexist Article in HuffPo

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Yecch. "The Original Power Couple Emerges Again With Hillary on Top . . ." Why not come right out and call her a nappy-headed ho...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Torture Is as Torture Does (CIA version)

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Manacled to the ceiling? Well, and why not? They were, like, Teh Enemy! Once they're dubbed Teh Enemy, you get to do anything you want...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Let Them Eat Cake? No! Let Them Make Tea!!

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I work with people (adults and children) who have chronic complex PTSD and dissociative disorders, many of whom self-injure, and many if not...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

CIA Torture Program Used Classic Torture Skill-Set

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CIA torture program: classic bait and switch? Nah. Classic inflict and revive. According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortur...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

JurassicPork Going Down, Down

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It ain't right, people. Pass it on. Send some love to Welcome Back to Pottersville.

"How Is This Poem by Nobel Laureate in Literature Czeslaw Milosz Relevant to The Democratic Party As It Currently Exists?" (originally posted May '08)

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for Vast Left A Task In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life Onl...
Monday, October 26, 2009

It's All About Me. No Really. It Is.

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So I've belatedly discovered that the bushist fascists with their dreadful profit-driven health-insurance-healthcare-denial-serf/slavery...
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