there was a ton of government neglect but it was all at the beginning, at the onset of all sorts of hellacious yet momentous moments in our history of devolution, only two of which were the ascendancies of both ronald reagan & the AIDS virus.

ah— but why should, for example, meryl streep have had to show the world her boobs, of all things, in a movie about karen silkwood, of all people?

this is not the jane fonda of viet nam you are talking about. this is the jane fonda of leg warmers & church. what she thinks of this kind of sarcasm now is very different of what she wouldve thought about this kind of sarcasm then. if you dont know her life the giveaway is in the words watched by families with their…

when yr plan is actually a fantasy—thats where it all gets stuck. as per: if he wasnt a cop & we liked him we might decide—note word: decide—that even knowing womens addresses & planning specific crimes against specific people was no more than just fleshing out, if you will, the fantasy. in this case i dont know if…

do you not understand how totalitarian yr comment sounds?

as per:

[put in the wrong place, apologies.]

am i insane to think that he was isntead committing very pertinent commentary on what people truly think while they are giving heavy duty verbal & visual shrift to politically correct ideas? cos thats how i took it. i didnt find him offensive. i find a culture thats entirely too hung up on & entirely too proud of…

this is old advice & was not designed to make women angry. instead it's feminist advice, from way back, designed to keep women from, yes, being raped.

i agree w/ you.

it's not yr fault. it isnt. dont take it out on yrself. dont. i will tell you two things from the inside, cos i know them [& know them well]:

depends on how old you are & if you remember the culture at the time. it's almost impossible to do—in fact, it might actually be impossible—but if you could understand where he was coming from, from w/in his own temporal context, that would help a lot. the current reinterpretation of his work through not only current…

i liked her a whole lot better before she declared war on fat kids.

john money has been seriously misinterpreted over the last decade or so. ever since the miserable david business. i know it probably doesnt seem like it yet—& i'm sure the most affected community does not think so—but my impression is that, at least in some ways, this misinterpretation, particularly that created by…

i dont like this show—once several years ago i watched my late spouse called a scumbag on it—he wasnt, he was just a drug addict. you will note he is also late, as above. but dr. drew, there, is correct. really really deep drug addiction is a horrible mess. it's worse for ex-celebs, even of the demi- variety [as per…

no open marriage? it's the predecessor to all the mainstream polyamory books. not that i'm endorsing it or anything; i'm not, the authors got divorced. i'm only noting its existence cos if yr gonna recommend books teaching you how to go down that particular hershey highway [instead of down another, different one—there…

i will only add that that extreme but temporary desperation is most often recurrent. consistently & sometimes continually recurrent.

not compensated. she means [& probably said] decompensated. & she's almost undoubtedly correct. this is a very good article, one of the best i've read about any aspect of psychology or psychiatry in many years. kudos.

agreed, anyone tied to the industry wouldnt think elsewise. even if one isnt, look at reality tv. look at what they did w/ project runway, of all things. & it started out as one of the least planned rtv programs.

it wasnt julia di sieno who hit the owl. it was some guy in a truck. &, as far as i can tell, he didnt ignore that he hit it, he got in touch w/ a whole mess of authority figures who put the owl in the hands of, yes, julia di sieno, wildlife rescuer. i believe he, meaning the owl, is fine now. no idea about the truck…