It may be quite possible for someone to get their degree and become board certified based on ‘accepted’ practices, but later shift to ‘less accepted’ practices. Board certification can last 10 years for some medical disciplines (I don’t know about psychology), so that’s plenty of time to make a shift. I don’t think a…

It is important to understand that psychology is not a hard science—it is based on theories of the mind, and accumulated anecdotal data. There are various ‘schools of thought’—at least one of which believes that people can be ‘conditioned’ to respond differently to stimuli (behaviorism). Thus, given that ‘unnatural’…

It’s a interesting problem: Bernie is liked more, but his programs are liked much less—Hillary is liked much less, but her programs would probably be more palatable (in general) to non-Tea Party Republicans. In the end, I believe both would be obstructed equally, *unless* one of them has much better down ballot…

Bernie does attack Hillary’s association with Wall Street. Hillary believes this is a smear on her character—as if Bernie is claiming that she has been influenced in some way. Bernie only implies that it “appears suspicious” when people take lots of money from special interests, but he is careful never to actually…

Thanks for the clarification. I do think HRC is better on the offensive. I believe she is a hobbled in the primary because she can’t go all out against her opponent—she can’t alienate her opponent’s supporters because she needs that support in the general election. I think she will be stronger in the general election,…

Okay, I see what you are saying. However, it’s difficult to fight non-cooperation. Direct ‘aggressive’ tactics are not very effective. Pressure has to be placed on the voters who elect them, but the counter message from conservative media is strong...

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My view is that Obama initially wanted to bring both sides together, but was rebuked by a large faction of the GOP (who developed the non-cooperation tactic on the day he was inaugurated). This naturally provoked some resentment, and Rahm Emanuel (something of a pit bull himself) convinced Obama to take a hard line on…

“I’m voting for Hillary (with some reluctance) because I think she’s a battle-tested beltway beeyotch who can clobber Republican radicals.”

One possible explanation for the GOP’s relentless attacks on HRC is their fear that Republican women will not be able to resist ‘voting with their vagina’ when they get into the voting booth—despite what they say in public...

There’s a reason for that:

I suspect that Ted’s basic problem is that he never was an idealist. Even though we tend to grow out of our childhood idealism phase and become more cynical as we age, it’s important to fight to keep some of that idealism alive in our hearts. Cruz strikes me as young person who felt he too sophisticated for idealism,…

Bernie should have done this: We’re going to put a time-progressive FTT on the stock market and see how much money we can make (and also reduce speculation in the stock market). The priorities for allocating the funds are: (1) making sure Obamacare is solvent (and expands to cover everyone), and (2) assisting with…

I stand corrected on the water buffaloes, at least until the appearance of warmer weather. Thank you for pointing out my error...

I assume the military needs to provide fresh water to troops in the winter, as well in the summer. It’s quite possible there are water buffaloes that are heated. If not, something could be set up with space heaters...

I think that is a low estimate, because it’s not just the pipes into the home but in some cases the pipes inside the houses have been damaged as well. Even so, $400 million / 20,000 homes = $20,000 per home. I don’t think that would cover the cost of building new homes. If Michigan matches it, that’s still only…

Why isn’t there a water buffalo (large water tank trailer) on every street? The National Guard must have a bunch of them, and other states could lend them to Michigan for the duration. At least that way people could walk 100 yards to get some potable water in gallon jugs. Or set up a system where tankers go through…

I suspect part of this equation is that for every cheerleader on the squad, there are 10 women waiting in the wings for their big chance. I’m not quite sure why they are so interested, but I suppose it’s an exciting job and you have 50,000 people looking at you every Sunday—everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame, and…

Over the last 10 years my interest in football dwindled to watching it at social occasions like a Superbowl party. Once the CTE stories came out I quit watching altogether. I’m not going to support a sport that does this kind of damage to young people. Not that my stance means anything to the business of football, but…