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Mental Health at the Washington Post

By nothere on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 3:44pm |

FYI: I recently discovered the Blogs at the WP under She the People.

Several of the recent entries there concern the issue in the subject line, mental health. I think it's recommended reading.

For instance:

The NRA’s school safety plan: Round up the sick and arm the children

and:

After Newtown: What mental health system?

The mentally ill and the security-industrial complex in schools

By nothere on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 7:27pm |

Earlier this week, I noted that no one had yet gone over the line and scapegoated the mentally ill.

I have just finished reading Wayne LaPierre's remarks, and I'm here to let you know that Wayne has done just that: put out the cat's paw  or trial balloon to scapegoat the mentally ill:

Page 3, first paragraph:

"A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"

Child soldiers

By nothere on Fri, 12/21/2012 - 7:06pm |

What's the difference between a child soldier in, say, Africa and Adam Lanza?

While the child soldier in Africa is at least as heavily armed as Lanza, he's killed fewer people.

That's not intended to be a joke.

Since I'm usually interested in sarcasm as a means to, metaphorically, slap people who are in a panic I can ask this:

Since at least one group in Africa cites the bible as a source for fielding child soldiers, will those people scapegoating video games commission an equivalent investigation into the bible?

Stomping on more of the usual things that are said...over half-way to a top ten list, kids!

By nothere on Wed, 12/19/2012 - 7:08pm |

This time, it's about the scapegoats people are trying to find and, IMO, pathologically require as a part of some fake grieving process and, allegedly, change[1].

It's pretty clear that part of the "process" of the upcoming conversation is well underway so I'm engaging in more wishful thinking and trying to stomp, using sarcasm, on the relevant flailings that I've seen here at DB and elsewhere. Here's my so-far list:

1) Video games

2) Quentin Tarantino

3) SSRI

A post on guns, violence, and etcetera

By nothere on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 5:49pm |

I'd intended to make no post on this topic. While I won't go into my views on the overall topic, my opinion is that nothing will change; not one single thing. Not two days from now; not two years; not in the next decade.

But the usual thing that is said is starting to show up, again, from various sources and I (in a flash of wishful thinking) hope to stomp on it early in its appearance, whatever its variation:

We need to have a conversation about gun control.

Thoughts after the election

By nothere on Wed, 11/14/2012 - 10:07pm |

Tonight, while I was at a bookstore and again while I was washing dishes, I mulled the events of the past week and was thankful that America rejected the bully.

As I was thinking of this, I was also thinking of how to remind people that Romney is a bully, and a blood-heir to the bullying politics of the GOP.

The debates

By nothere on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 10:25am |

I did not watch the debates. I have read the reviews; and I can just about feel the clenching vocal cords as people draw in their breath, silently asking: "What is Obama doing?"

As if he's some sort of performance artist who seems to have recently gained weight, shock-horror!

Me? For some reason, all I can think is: Rope-a-Dope.

I could be wrong; but that's my call.

Private bankers and swimming pool orgies

By nothere on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 7:02pm |

It seems to me that everyone (where everyone is, generally, "the Media") has chosen to go mute on the sex angle.

Seriously, everyone: the Republican nominee for President speaks at the home of a private banker (you remember bankers, right, peanut gallery? the ones who screwed, basically, the entire world a few years ago?) who throws or allows or hosts orgies in his pool at the Hamptons...I take it the radio silence is some sort of modesty?

Questions:

What was the ratio of penises to vaginas?

Was it het-on-het, or were multi-organed pansexuals allowed in?

That video of Romney, talking about his version of The New Scum

By nothere on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 9:14pm |

To think I re-read Year of the Bastard by Warren Ellis just this weekend.

For myself, I've wondered when (even if) the Smiler would actually show up in American politics via our tech level's version of source gas. It's actually kind of stunning to see it happen. But maybe I'm naive.

Coincidences

By nothere on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 11:20am |

One:

On August 5, 2012, a mass shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin. A lone gunman...

 

Two:

Fire destroys Missouri mosque in second blaze at the Islamic center in 5 weeks; no injuries Published: August

JOPLIN, Mo. — Investigators say it will take a few days to determine if the fire that destroyed a southwest Missouri mosque was arson.

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