Perhaps crazy people shouldn’t be allowed to have knives?
Surely it’s been noticed that mass knife stabbings are happening more frequently in Japan. I’m not making light of it; it’s a horrible thing. Gun laws in Japan are some of the strictest, so I guess...
View ArticleScandal grows regarding hospital whores selling celeb med records
It took Farrah Fawcett’s battle with cancer being splattered all over the media to find out that hospital employees in Los Angeles have been selling celeb medical records. It gets worse. It seems that...
View ArticleMedia makes its own rules
The media typically withholds names of rape victims to protect the privacy of that person. Except when it serves a higher purpose, like ratings or ad revenues. Last week the New York Times published...
View ArticleKim Komando: Using Blogs as Therapy
Radio tech guru Kim Komando discusses blogging as a sort of therapy: click arrow to listen I have kept journals since I was a kid. I still have them – an entire box of fabric-covered journals, some...
View ArticleWhy me? Why not you?
By chance (or was it fate?) I came across an article that appeared in Salon a few years ago. It’s called “Why Me” by Dan Shapiro, associate professor in the college of medicine at the University of...
View ArticleInterview with Dr. Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro has a website at http://www.danshapiro.org Here is a great interview with the New York Times from 2001: May 15, 2001 A CONVERSATION WITH: Dan Shapiro; A Doctor’s Story of Hope, Humor and...
View ArticleThe importance of candidness in electroconvulsive therapy
One of the most frequent questions I’m asked by reporters is “Why did you start ect.org?” The answer is that I started it over a decade ago to simply share information about electroconvulsive therapy....
View ArticleAssociated Press – even their grammar is wrong
Or in internet-speak, grammer. Since I got online, back in the 90s, I’ve become aware of glaring problems regarding the state of American grammar. I had no idea, and I think it’s atrocious. In an...
View ArticleA pile of puppies
As a child, I was allowed to breed my cocker spaniel, Skipper, and sell the puppies. One of the many little businesses I had growing up. Raising cockers was a family tradition – my mom and her siblings...
View ArticleDepression Self Help Ideas
I enjoy the study of feng shui and came across this helpful post. It lists five ways of dealing with depression without meds. Dealing With Depression
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