Womack ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Merely anecdotal and not a study, but anyone else remember how upset people got when John Hinkley was found Not Guilty by reason of Insanity for shooting at Reagan? Note he's still in.
yeah, but they keep trying to let him out. And the "unsupervised visit' bit is getting old.
Interesting similarities here, from that (horrific) article:
The defense faulted Schlosser's husband for not getting her adequate mental health treatment and also blamed [her pastor], who believes only God can cure mental illness.
Heh. More proof that organized religion is BAD.
All hail the flying spaghetti monster!
That Hinckley verdict led to lots of so-called insanity defense "reform."
ION, overheard in the office reminded me of ita today:
Office grunt #1: I hate all these fucking meetings! Office grunt #2: Didn't you set this meeting up? Office grunt #1: Yeah, but that's not the point.
One of Rosalynn Carter's big causes [link] is the de-stigmatization of mental illness, which more and more seems like the root of so many avoidable tragedies.
I got my dad the flying spaghetti monster book for a very belated father's day gift (I'd actually bought it long before but I suck and didn't mail it.) He kept reading parts of it outloud the whole vacation. Tried to get the nephew to chant "Oh Flying Spaghetti Monster" but said child shortened it to "NOODLES!"
Heh. More proof that organized religion is BAD.
Bah. ::hugs own church, whose pastor is a licensed counselor finishing his doctorate in psychiatry at UC Berkeley::
::considers that being an MD/PhD psychiatrist makes him extra-extra-evil in the eyes of Scientologists::
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I missed the interview with Mr. Insano from the Catholic League on last night's Colbert Report--from what I've heard over at TWOP, it's a must-catch for how Stephen handled his raving (basically letting him hang himself). I'm betting the guy thought that Stephen would be his ally due to his Catholicism, but no dice.
Bah.
Tongue in cheek, my love. Tongue in cheek.
Maybe not my own cheek, but there you go.
I missed the interview with Mr. Insano from the Catholic League on last night's Colbert Report--from what I've heard over at TWOP, it's a must-catch for how Stephen handled his raving (basically letting him hang himself).
It was full-strength craxy, for sure.