Au contraire. The lad playing bass even then was widely recognised as a brilliant game-changer on the instrument. Listen to his part on ‘Something’ and then try to say out loud Sir Paul was not a virtuoso. Also, one could argue that as just a singer he was in rarified company.

They loved the early female groups too...recorded “Boys” by the Shirelles even though it was meant to be sung by women just because they loved it.

On it’s own, criticism of their skill and talent in playing their instruments is essentially irrelevant - they are not considered to be one of or the greatest group(s) of all time because of how they each played their instruments (even many of the most die-hard Beatles fans will acknowledge that Ringo’s playing was…

please.....................the National Enquirer, of all places, published millions of articles in the ‘70s on how Giancana and JFK shared Judith Exner contemporaneously..................

As my dad likes to say (and he loves the Beatles), “The Beatles were a group, not a band.”

The Beatles were citing Chuck Berry and others as their heroes before the Stones hit.

In rock and roll especially, you don’t have to be great at playing your instrument to create great music.

You don’t need to be technically brilliant to write excellent pop songs. You just need to have a good ear, know three chords, and how to turn a phrase. Everyone in the Beatles was really good at all those things.

What were your first impressions of the Beatles?

Girls, girls, girls!! (Not the Motley Crue song), I kind of decided on a whim last year to watch The Good Fight, without having watched a single full episode of The Good Wife, and it did NOT disappoint, I binged every episode in one night, and now I have a massive crush on Cush Jumbo. Totally worth the watch.

There are answers to all of your questions in our current understanding of trauma. Trauma occurs when one of two things happens: 1. You are unable to integrate your experience/memory/understanding of a profoundly distressing event, 2. You experience a threat to life, body integrity, or sanity.

I think you replied to a fascinating question, and one where there are still empirical facts to be ascertained. When you say “categorizing the experience as traumatic allows survivors to start processing and healing from the experience,” I sense that there is / should be empirical evidence to back that up. Is it true…

I’m reasonably certain that if I asked 10 laymen for the distinction between the non-medical terms “psychopath” and “sociopath,” 1 would draw your distinction, 3 would say something completely different, and the remaining 6 would say they have no idea.

A real fetus would get it.

There’s no medical distinction between sociopaths and psychopaths. In fact, in the DSM-V, there is no diagnosis for sociopath or psychopath at all. It’s all antisocial personality disorder.

Just because you work at a non-profit doesn’t mean you should be underpaid. Non-profit management sometimes use their mission and tight budgets to manipulate employees into being okay with low salaries but just because the organization is helping people doesn’t mean their employees work is less valuable, a lot of…

I think part of the problem is that (unless I’m mistaken) if you try someone as a juvenile, you *have* to free them once they reach adulthood, no matter how soon that is or how much of a danger they still are to others.

It always bothered me that they tried these two girls as adults.

The money would be better spent on therapy.

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