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loose ends…

Saxby Chambliss Chambliss Staffer Fired for Posting Gay Threat Online 11-Alive News By Eve Chen and Jeff Hullinger 09/30/2010 A week after a threatening anti-gay comment was posted on an online message board and traced back to Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ district office in Cobb County, the staff member responsible has been fired. "The office of […]

Grassley…

I seem to be fixated on what’s happened to Psychiatry [Dr. Nemeroff et al] and the story of Bishop Eddie Long. What connects the two? A couple of things. They both are about corruption of something that matters in the world – mental health, spiritual health. But there’s another connection – an unlikely one for […]

charlie’s world…

My comment here may be considered a piece of my own obsession with Dr. Nemeroff, but in my mind, it is the eye of the storm… An Epidemic of Domestic Violence 10 deaths in 24 hours MIAMI By DIANA GONZALEZ Sep 28, 2010 Riviera Beach early Monday morning, a man forces himself inside his estranged […]

what is wrong with Eddie Long…

Galatians 6 7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in […]

a virile king…

If the allegations from his Spiritual Sons were not enough, now we begin to hear the thoughts of Eddie Long – like from his book, "What a Man Wants, What a Woman Needs." And so it goes along the biblical "helpmeat of man" route, until it takes an ironic turn:   Traveling with men to […]

megalomania?…

Long to congregation: ‘This is spiritual warfare’ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Larry Hartstein and Christian Boone September 29, 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, speaking to his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Tuesday night, again did not directly address the sexual allegations made against him. Bishop Eddie Long said Tuesday if people believed media reports, […]

still a democrat…

Deal Surges Ahead Of Barnes In Latest Poll WSB-TV Poll September 28, 2010 Governor’s Race Deal (R) 45% Barnes (D) 37% Monds (L) 5% Undecided 13% The results showed former former Rep. Deal with 45 percent and former Governor Barnes with 37 percent. Libertarian candidate John Monds remained at 5 percent.13 percent are still undecided, […]

to bring in the money…

I’ve spent no small amount of time raling about the invasion of the Pharmaceutical Industry into Academic Medicine, specifically at Emory University where I trained and worked for some time. The Chairman, Dr. Charles Nemeroff, was relieved of his Chair in 2008 because of repeated Conflict of Interest violations. Since then, he has moved on […]

ought to matter…

Campaign paid $135K to lease aircrafts from company Deal co-owns The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Aaron Gould Sheinin September 26, 2010 Nathan Deal’s campaign for governor has paid a company in which the Republican nominee is a part owner more than $135,000 to lease aircraft — many times more than any other candidate for governor in […]

looks bad to me…

It took me a while to realize that these are photographs taken by Bishop Eddie Long posing in front of his bathroom mirror using his cell phone [I’m still awed that you can carry a phone around with you and and haven’t yet incorporated the fact that they have cameras in them]. So he’s playing […]