You should see my mom frantically flailing it around while doing her best Count voice in front of 20 transfixed first-graders. They are rapt; they cannot take their eyes off it. She has to remind them it's a puppet. It is fucking adorable.

My mom teaches small children and occasionally uses a Count Von Count puppet (from Sesame Street) when working with math/numbers. She does the voice, the accent, the whole nine yards; the kids love it.

The NYDN also reports that White may have been suffering from severe emotional and mental health issues.

She fucking CLOCKED A KNIFE-WIELDING PSYCHO WITH HER BACKPACK. I want to pay that little girl's full 4-year college tuition right now.

My co-worker told a young woman to smile about a week ago and I blew a gasket. He explained that it was such a beautiful day she should be smiling. I asked him is he also tells 6'5 biker men to smile too because it's so beautiful outside. And then told him to not do that anymore as she is not there for his viewing…

Can we please shake this idea that's suddenly floating around that mental illness automatically means you're not responsible for your actions? There's a very small set of non-lucid mentally ill people who are truly not responsible for making the choice of whether or not to be violent. If you're capable of making the…

I hate that shit so much because I'm "mentally ill" (I live with and manage pretty severe depression and anxiety) and every single time some little shit stain gets the sads and takes it out on someone, everyone's all, "they're so OBVIOUSLY mentally ill ZOMG" which might be a small part of it, yes. HOWEVER, that…

On the one hand, I think mental health needs to be considered much more prominently in the criminal justice system, but on the other, you're right. People tend only to associate 'mental illness' with violent behavior.

I get frustrated with all the arm chair psychiatrists in these cases because we are so eager to chalk up every violent act to "mental illness" and I think that further stigamtizes mental illness and makes people even more reluctant to get help.

Here's the companion pict:

I mean, I have mental health problems, and I don't like it when people are excessively happy around me, but the worst I can ever manage is a scowl and a yearning for some schadenfreude. Maybe some muttered obscenities.

I realize this man has a likely mental disorder, which is an entirely different kettle of fish and level of culpability.

Thank you. I can't even handle this shit anymore.

You know the similarities are going to bring the trolls to the yard.

This is probably the first time that wasn't funny to me.

That grade is a lot better than the "see me after class" I got on an in-class essay I wrote after taking Topamax for the first time.

In college I threw a party, maybe 40-50 people came. A friend of mine called right before the party with an emergency: she was making pot cookies but her oven wasn't working. So I let her come over to use my oven. By the time the cookies were baking - invading the entire apartment with their sweet, sweet smell - the…

Junior year of high school. I did not smoke all that often, but I had many friends who did. So in the random way of high school and the wilds of boring, small town Ohio, I ended up smoking way WAY too much.

So, this one time, my friends and I decide to take some powdered "mescaline." In retrospect, this probably wasn't mescaline. We ended up calling it the "research chemical."

Anyway, I am not sure why I reacted so powerfully to it while my friends didn't. I mean, they were definitely high, but I was in deep fucking…