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Accountability and Loss of Memory
I’ve seen many people in bipolar support groups counsel the newly diagnosed not to feel shame for things they did while they were in episode: it was the disease that did it, not them is the reasoning. This cleaving of the self, I think, does not help us get a handle on the illness and [...]
Posted: January 3rd, 2013 under Accountability, Mania.
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The Real Depravity of 2012
Let me get this clear: I am not gay. But according to the Radicals of the Tea Party (who really don’t care about gay marriage except to excite the fear-driven) I must be homosexual because I support same sex marriage. And I have supported it for many years — about 24 to be precise. To [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2012 under Accountability, Campaign 2012, Gender, Hatred, Propaganda.
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Bachmann’s Migraines: New swing on stigma
If John F. Kennedy could get us through the Cuban Missile Crisis with the threat of migraines hanging over him, this issue should be dead, cremated, shot into space, and buried in a black hole.
Posted: July 19th, 2011 under Accountability, Campaign 2012, Neurology, Stigma.
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An open letter to Ed Schultz
We would not be in this place if it hadn’t been for you telling people to stay home in 2010.
Posted: July 7th, 2011 under Accountability, Civic Responsibility, Class, Mental Illness.
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This Ohio Congressman is Dead
This particular story blazed across Twitter like a tangible blessing direct from the hand of God
Posted: June 9th, 2011 under Accountability, Folly Watch, Gender, Micro-blogging.
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Do I Engage in Violent Rhetoric?
So here is your challenge: catch me doing it.
Posted: January 16th, 2011 under Accountability, Terrorism, Violence.
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The Extreme Right’s Plan After Tucson
The plan is no plan. Just run on automatic knee-jerk
Posted: January 14th, 2011 under Accountability, Civic Responsibility, Insurance, Stigma, Terrorism, Violence.
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Diagnosing Jared Lee Loughner for Political Gain
Lightning probably did not strike in Arizona, but hatred did.
Posted: January 10th, 2011 under Accountability, Campaign 2010, Civic Responsibility, Hatred, Stigma, Violence.
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Laughner and His Cloud of Unknowing
Laughner may be as crazy as a fox.
Posted: January 8th, 2011 under Accountability, Civic Responsibility, Propaganda, Scoundrels, Terrorism, Violence.
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The Death Squads Arrive
Progressives, it is time to rise like you have never risen before.
Posted: January 8th, 2011 under Accountability, Civic Responsibility, Hatred, Scoundrels, Terrorism, Violence.
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Obama’s Blunder
My only question is “Jerry Brown? Won’t you run?
Posted: December 7th, 2010 under Accountability, Campaign 2010, Class.
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Twain, Gould, and Mammonism; Strickland
I’m deep in Mark Twain’s Autobiography, a curious document which consists of his dictated remembrances, newspaper clippings, and a biography written by his second child, Susy. It does not follow any sort of neat line, but jumps about like a carnival ride landing here in his lecture circuit days, there in his boyhood, and here [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2010 under Accountability, Class, Reading.
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