I was lamenting the fact that all the public televisions here in red state georgia alway have Fox News running, thinking that it’s the price I pay living in a small blue enclave in a sea of red. But two people commented that their public T.V.’s have Fox on all the time, and they both [...]
I’ve rattled on about "double binds" before. It is a kind of communication originally described under this terminology that’s common in families that produce mentally ill children. An example that immediately comes to mind from a case long ago was a patient who was in the hospital after a suicide attempt. It was her birthday. [...]
Woman speaks of husband’s torture at CIA abduction trial in Italy Clutching her Italian identity card in a gloved hand, the cloaked wife of a fiery Muslim cleric Wednesday tearfully recounted publicly for the first time how her husband was kidnapped on a Milan street in 2003 and sent to Egypt to endure torture and repeated imprisonment. [...]
Rush Limbaugh berates 10th grader’s school essay The best story I’ve heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barak Obama’s comments about similarities between the recent housing crisis and the lead-up [...]