Supernatural has been given a full season go by the WB.

Very glad to hear this. I'm hoping Criminal Minds, the show I tape during Lost and watch after it's over, keeps going. The blurbs (written by CBS publicists, natch) are calling it a hit show, so that's encouraging, but it's up against Lost and Veronica Mars, so it's got a lot of competition.

I think just any sort of psychiatric meds. It meakes sense that they'd fear anything having to do with psychiatry, since, you know, shrinks help deprogram the nutjobs.

but the kid (the one from Million Dollar Baby) is a friend of a friend. A Montrealer, to boot.

He was good in Undeclared. The few commentaries I half-listened to made it sound like he was playing himself, though.

More than that, Allyson. If memory serves, L Ron Hubbard was kicked out of the American Pyschiatric Assoc, so the religion has a bit of a bone to pick with the whole field of psychiatry.

I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.

This is total coolness:

Philips is totally rockin’ out with the concept products lately; besides the Chameleon Lamp we just brought you (hidden amongst a thick stack of other concept devices), they were also showing off an innovative DAP at the same Paris event. The “Tune In” is a flash-based player that both broadcasts its signal to nearby Tune In devices and can recieve tracks the same way. Philips envisions users becoming their own tiny radio stations, sharing their playlists on the subway, in the library, anywhere people congregate. Personally, we’re not so fond of letting others anonymously peruse our song cache (our raging Right Said Fred addiction would become instant fodder for gossip), but the idea of knowing that hot-stuff sitting near us on the bus is also too sexy for his/her shirt is strangely and disturbingly appealing.

I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.

I personally think it's that people just want to belive things. I think we're most of us hardwired that way. It doesn't seem to matter what the belief structure is. Though it seems to me that the more the belief structure takes away the burden of thinking for yourself and the more it blames a specific group of easily hated people for all the problems and evils in the world, the easier it is to believe.

I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.

Perhaps they are just a cranky bunch. Or perhaps it was inevitable given that psychiatrists believe in the mind and Scientologists believe that past lives and aliens control our actions.

Bookbinding is extraordinarily confusing to me. FYI.

I don't understand how people trip and fall into such things, unable to get out.

Cults work by convincing people that they are smarter than the average person, and that by joining [insert cult here], they can become even moreso. They feed off of pride and paranoia, both of which are in ample supply.