Good news for drinkers! Not only is it good for your teeth (according to some Aussie friends in college), but alcohol also makes you smarter. So raise a glass to everyone’s new favorite IQ enhancer!
Drink up!
08.05.04 | Permalink | 2 Comments
Update: Dry drunk and paranoid
08.02.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Capitol Hilll Blue is reporting again on Bush’s supposedly depressed, erratic, and paranoid behavior. Confirmation of Bush taking “powerful antidepressants” is now more explicit. And there are other, more troubling developments:
White House aides say Bush has retreated into a tightly-controlled environment where only top political advisors like Karl Rove and Karen Hughes are allowed. Even White House chief of staff Andrew Card complains he has less and less access to the President.
Among cabinet members, only Attorney General John Ashcroft, a fundamentalist who shares many of Bush’s strict religious convictions, remains part of the inner circle. White House aides call Bush and Ashcroft the “Blue Brothers” because, like the mythical movie characters, “both believe they are on a mission from God.” […] Click to continue reading “Update: Dry drunk and paranoid”
Dry drunk and paranoid?
07.30.04 | Permalink | 10 Comments
It’ll be interesting to see how this story develops. A couple of DC doctors are admitting they they are treating Bush for depression and paranoia. Staffers appear worried and are warning Republican Congressional candidates to stay away from the President.
Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.
“I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed,” Dr. Frank said. “He fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated.”
It’s difficult to come up with a compassionate response to this. I’m working on the early stages of a mental health anti-stigma campaign for work, and I’ve long struggled with how to publicly acknowledge my own depression (and treament). I don’t want Bush “outed” for his mental illness, and I’m worried that if this story is true it could set back the anti-stigma cause. Click to continue reading “Dry drunk and paranoid?”
I’m gonna kill that devil horse
07.29.04 | Permalink | 2 Comments
The liberal activist group America Coming Together is running an ad starring SNL’s Will Ferrell as Dubya himself.
Advantages of god-talk
07.28.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Advantages of god-talk
From a discussion thread at plastic.com:
I’m pretty sure we came when God’s alcoholism got the best of him, and he needed some money, so he invited the devil over to gamble. He said, “Here, lets take a group of these little monkeys, make em stand on two legs, and we’ll give this one a club” (a la 2001 A space odyssey.) “Lets make a bet; if they can go for 7 million years without killing themselves off, then you call off my bar tab.”
Further down the thread, there’s a Tom Waits quote: “There ain’t no devil…just God when he’s drunk.”
Barak Obama for President
07.28.04 | Permalink | 43 Comments
Barak Obama will be the first black President of the United States. He’s the democratic nominee for Senate in Illinois, and he gave last night’s keynote address at the Democratic Convention.
I felt chills. You have to hear it for yourself. (Video and text here.)
Like conservative pundit David Brooks said, “It was like watching Tiger Woods’ first tournament.”
Update: Jeane at Body & Soul had a similar reaction.
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