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The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Speaks for Himself – New York Times “… he mimicked President John F. Kennedy’s Boston accent and also mocked Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s speech. “Nobody says to a Kennedy, ‘You speak bad English,’ ” he said. “Only to a black child was that said.” “ Errrrr eh, errrrr eh …” But we do make fun of Ted Kennedy’s Boston accent! Pretty much everybody does. In fact, I think I’ll call it Bobonics . I’m starting to really like Rev. Wright.

The number one thing a bipolar can do is develop self-awareness. The ability to identify an impending crisis and take steps to prevent it makes a huge difference in the quality of your life. If a bipolar is so first-person that they don’t notice racing thoughts and they don’t have enough of a grasp of formal logic to recognize a delusion for what it is, I don’t see how meds can do anything other than make them easier to handle. “Easy to handle” is not, in my non-professional opinion, a positive therapeutic goal. Some days I think every bipolar should be forced to take Abstract Algebra. That which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger, eh?

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Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source This would be funny if it weren’t so plausible. “Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,” Carson said. “What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.'” –Dr. Ellen Carson, a leading Intelligent Falling expert known for her work with the Kansan Youth Ministry.

I occasionally interfere in the perpetual misconception that science is somehow more than a quasi-objective reality check. The other day a questioner postulated that the continued existence of homosexuality effectively disproves “survival of the fittest” I give the fellow credit for understanding that homosexuality is more than a lifestyle choice . Nonetheless, I left a steaming pile for the questioner to ponder. I’ll go back next week and vote for myself. Survival of the Fittest applies at the population level, not at an individual level. It isn’t a “rule” in the way you’d think of a rule, it is about how environmental factors affect the diversity in a population. For instance, there has been an upsurge in asthma deaths since the US has relaxed air pollution standards. Homosexuality is a continuum of desires whose expression is modulated largely by social forces. (I’m purposely leaving out the nature-vs.-nurture aspect. The jury ...

“Vocatus atque non vocatus… deus aderit Called or not called , GOD will be present.” — Inscription on Gravestone of Professor Dr. Carl G. Jung, Kusnacht, Switzerland Quoted from Heaven’s Register Have you read any Jung? Jung was a medical doctor whose father was a philospher and pastor. Jung believed that God is not “out there” but is inside us all. God is our subconscious mind! You feel deep down what is right, now don’t you? Jung pointed out that God evolved morally over the course of biblical history. That’s right, God got better and better. He had to, to keep up with his children’s moral evolution. Being the firstborn is a curse for a lot of reasons, and it didn’t start with that whole “Dad forgot to paint the lintels” thing. It can be deduced from the concept of a morally evolving God that Jesus Christ was the manifestation of this evolution. the “God made flesh.” God hoped that a phys...

Pretty much any psych med by itself will affect sex drive. I see folks taking a half a dozen of them, and then another med or two to counteract the side effects. The pdocs tell us that they DON’T because they don’t want us to quit taking them. Perhaps we should refer to our meds as a “pharmaceutical chastity belt.” Anything that tweaks your dopamine down is going to get rid of the emotional spark required to have something resembling a sex life. And anything that tweaks UP serotonin receptors does so at the expense of dopamine receptors. See this article, Notes on Anhedonia and SAD . For men, there’s also the problem of peripheral blood flow – a strictly mechanical problem. Can’t get the old hydraulics to run, eh? Viagra and Cialis work by improving blood flow. Heck, coffee dilates the blood vessels too, and if you brew it at home it’s way cheaper than an ED pill. Diabetes is common cause of ED, so antipsychotics that affect blood ...

Well, unless I die sometime today, I’m going to e ~ file my 2007 Federal Return tonight. I use TurboTax because my brokerage recommends it. It’s not so bad, really. TurboTax has a scoreboard at the top of the screen that shows your progress. It’s kind of like a text adventure game where you’re trying to get your money back from the pirates . When I go to one of the local tax services I always feel rushed. The guy works on a schedule and I can’t stop in the middle of the return to get a cup of tea or start a load of laundry. With TurboTax , you can walk away for an entire day, or even until the next weekend. (Oops.) If the guy comes up with additional deductions and I didn’t happen to bring the documentation, too bad. It means rescheduling and another trip. Working at home with TurboTax means my file cabinet is right behind me. I can stop and go online to bank or credit card sites to look up the numbers for a new deduction I hadn...

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National Geographic Self-powered Emergency Radio Every summer, Mr. X does what he calls “The Gathering of the Flashlights.” A leftover habit from our Philadelphia Folk Festival and camping days, The Gathering is Mr. X’s ritual of collecting all the flashlights in the house and replacing batteries and bulbs. Well, National Geographic emailed me an ad for the gem pictured above – the National Geographic Self-powered Emergency Radio. What self-respecting engineer wouldn’t want a flashlight with a hand-crank? Let’s face it, folks, Green is more than a bumper sticker. 90-seconds of cranking gives an hour worth of battery for the radio. No fumbling in drawers in the dark trying to find the right size battery. Ok, so National Geographic is more impressed with the radio aspect. And it’s a cell phone battery charger. It even gets international shortwave radio bands. Oh, get this – it also has a red flashing beacon and a siren. I think I...

Today I learned that the Arabic word for mental illness has the same etymology as the Arabic word for evil spirits. This has an unfortunate effect on how the mentally ill are perceived in the Middle East. Language is an odd thing. It enables you to express your innermost thoughts and feelings. BUT it almost guarantees that the thoughts and feelings you express have been totally shaped by the language itself. In the words of comedian Lenny Bruce, “Believe me, I’m not profound, this is something that I assume someone must have laid on me, because I do not have an original thought. I am screwed. I speak English. That’s it. I was not born in a vacuum. Every thought I have belongs to somebody else.” — Lenny Bruce, quoted on Rakes Progress: Lenny Bruce is not afraid So what’s happening is that as long as the doctors use that old-fashioned word to describe mental illness, demon-possessed the mentally ill will remain. Arabs don’t have a monopoly on ...

Charlton Heston died yesterday. They’re still trying to pry the gun out of his cold, dead hands.

Does the word “ uncompromising ” mean “having strong values” or does it mean “selfish, stubborn, and uncooperative?” Mostly I hear the word uncompromising in advertisements for large gas-guzzling SUVs. Stand your ground, you deserve as much gasoline as you can get! Ok, let me parse that word that is so proudly used in advertisements, and worse, by our leaders. Main Entry: un·com·pro·mis·ing Pronunciation: \-?m?-zi?\ Function: adjective Date: 1800 : not making or accepting a compromise : making no concessions : inflexible , unyielding – Merriam-Webster Dictionary: uncompromising Ah, inflexible. Are we talking about a lack of neuroplasticity again? I submit, then, that if a person is uncompromising then they have a mental deficiency that renders them incapable of making the compromises that smooth interpersonal and even international relationships. That explains a thing or two. Main Entry: in·flex·i·ble Pronunciation: \(?)in-?flek-s?-b?l\ Fu...