As someone whose therapist friends have been battling, so far bloodlessly, with diagnosis-happy psychiatrists over clients being told they have lifelong disorders following brief depressive episodes, this Wired article strikes me as pretty important. (Via Zoë Pollock)
Co-blogger James Hanley’s response to my bleg this morning (which I found very helpful even if it didn’t directly answer the bleg itself*) got me thinking. James wrote, in pertinent part: The public choice...
Yesterday, Salon highlighted something “incredibly stupid” written by Jonah Goldberg in a “doozy of a syndicated column“. I’m no Goldberg scholar, so maybe it’s right that “pathetic” Goldbergian Conservatism is, “a philosophy defined entirely by opposition...
For some reason, I got thinking a little bit about antitrust law this afternoon, a subject on which I’m somewhat conflicted and about which my knowledge is definitely lacking. What I’m wondering is whether...
Tom Petty’s half-time show at Superbowl 42 is probably the best I’ve ever seen – maybe the only one I’ve ever liked at all. This is in part because Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers...
She was as wildly amusing as some of the religious extremists she debated. When I encounter fervent atheists on this site, I oft-feel like I am dealing with her ghost.
“We’ve all met people who invoke Ayn Rand to justify behaving like a sociopath in their personal relationships. I’d still recommend that any adolescent suffering from Catholic guilt read the passages about Hank and...
In a 100 percent perfectly titled post, Patrick at Popehat (and Ann Althouse) tears asunder the nomination of Merle Haggard’s classic Okie From Muskogie for Andrew Sullivan’s poll on the “smuggest, most pretentious pop...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Agreed.
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThey also didn't want to hold their nose at work with people that made them wretch. Many of them als…
on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectationswestern lens of martyrdom culture.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25You had two that auto-trashed. I fished them out.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25If there's something there, I'm sure Schakowsky's people can dig it up. Right now all we have is a w… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I agree with the age thing but there are better primary challengers out there or maybe not. Diane Fe… on Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest ExpectationsThe Pro-Palestinian movement basically convinced itself that the only way to achieve true justice (T… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25I'd go with #10. We've had 3 DJT election cycles now, and there's not an obvious successor. The guy… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Every party has a pooper! ;-)
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