I haven’t been especially easy on Harry Reid lately. I think his behavior despicable, shortsighted, pernicious, self-serving, and bordering on the traitorious. But it doesn’t fit the definition of treason, even though Tom Delay recently has called it “very, very … Continue reading →
This week’s Sanity Squad podcast at PJ deals with the question of how therapists figure out who is likely to be dangerous, and what to do about it. Listen to Dr. Sanity, Shrink, Siggy, and me wrestle with this knotty … Continue reading →
Here’s Naval officer Jason Nichols’s letter to Harry Reid on the subject of Reid’s recent declaration of defeat in Iraq. He makes the excellent point that statements such as Reid’s strike fear into the hearts of any Iraqis who might … Continue reading →
Are clients best served by therapists who’ve had life experiences and backgrounds similar to theirs? Clients certainly often seen to want this, but do they need it for the most effective therapy to take place? And, in fact, can such … Continue reading →
While I was away there was another “storm of the century”—the third, by my count, since this century has begun. I was overjoyed to have been safely away when it happened; my neighbors, hearty New Englanders all, report cowering in … Continue reading →
The first round of the elections in France have produced the two candidates for the runoff: Sarkozy and Royal. It turns out after all that most people were not lying to the polls because they were ashamed to say they … Continue reading →
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called the war in Iraq a failure. How does he know this? Because of the “extreme violence in Iraq this week.” And what did that violence consist of? A series of terrorist bombings … Continue reading →
The first round of French elections are coming this Sunday, followed by another (and deciding) one two weeks later. The field is unusual for France. As Jane Kramer points out in the New Yorker, all three leading candidates are relative … Continue reading →
Along with Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom, I’m a guest on this week’s Blog Week in Review. So, if you haven’t had enough of my voice lately on the Sanity Squad, you can listen to more here.
Continue reading →Join me, Siggy, and Dr. Sanity, as the Sanity Squad discusses the killings at Virginia Tech. (Shrink was on vacation this week; he’s due back next time).
Continue reading →As more details emerge on the background of the Virginia Tech shooter, it turns out that his history was one long, loud warning sign that something extremely bad was about to happen. So how is it that this young man—who … Continue reading →
As more of the story emerges, we begin to learn something about the dead and their lives (see here and here for some heartbreaking photos, as well). Most were so young that their tales were cut off before they could … Continue reading →