Russell Brand Pens Touching Tribute to Amy Winehouse - omg! news on Yahoo!

Russell Brand Pens Touching Tribute to Amy Winehouse - omg! news on Yahoo!: "'I was myself at that time barely out of rehab and was thirstily seeking less complicated women so I barely reflected on the now glaringly obvious fact that Winehouse and I shared an affliction, the disease of addiction. All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a consistent and obvious symptom; they're not quite present when you talk to them. They communicate to you through a barely discernible but un-ignorable veil. Whether a homeless smack head troubling you for 50 pence for a cup of tea or a coked-up, pinstriped exec foaming off about his 'speedboat,' there is a toxic aura that prevents connection. They have about them the air of elsewhere, that they're looking through you to somewhere else they'd rather be. And of course they are. The priority of any addict is to anesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief.'"

Zero Degrees of Empathy - Simon BaronCohen | Guardian bookshop

Zero Degrees of Empathy - Simon BaronCohen Guardian bookshop: "Synopsis Argues that unlike the concept of evil, empathy has explanatory power. This title presents a way of understanding that leads individuals down negative paths, and challenges to consider replacing the idea of evil with the idea of empathy-erosion."

Mom convicted in son’s jaywalking death: ‘This will never end for me’ | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

Mom convicted in son’s jaywalking death: ‘This will never end for me’ The Lookout - Yahoo! News: "Nelson also said that the jury had 'never been in my shoes,' because each of them answered that they had never taken public transportation before. Nelson, who doesn't have a car, was three-tenths of a mile away from the nearest crosswalk when her bus dropped her off at the stop across the street from her apartment with her three children. She decided to cross with her kids rather than remain outside any later at night, she said."

Navy prepares submarines for 1st female officers - Yahoo! News

Navy prepares submarines for 1st female officers - Yahoo! News: "For Ensign Peggy LeGrand, the biggest concern about serving on a submarine is not spending weeks at a time in tight quarters with an entirely male crew. What worries her is the scrutiny that comes with breaking one of the last gender barriers in the U.S. military.
'I have a feeling more people will be focused on us. Our mistakes and successes will be magnified more than they deserve,' said LeGrand, a 25-year-old Naval Academy graduate from Amarillo, Texas.
LeGrand is among a small group of female officers who are training at sites including Groton, Conn., to join the elite submarine force beginning later this year. While the Navy says it is not treating them any differently from their male counterparts, officials have been working to prepare the submarine crews — and the sailors' wives — for one of the most dramatic changes in the 111-year history of the Navy's 'silent service.'"

Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies at age 27 - Yahoo! News

Police: Singer Amy Winehouse dies at age 27 - Yahoo! News: "Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.
Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album 'Back to Black,' whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music's most recognizable stars. But her personal life, with its drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, soon took over her career."

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com: "The better we understand human psychology and neurology, the more we will uncover the underpinnings of religion. Some of them, like the attachment system, push us toward a belief in gods and make departing from it extraordinarily difficult. But it is possible.

We can be better as a species if we recognize religion as a man-made construct. We owe it to ourselves to at least consider the real roots of religious belief, so we can deal with life as it is, taking advantage of perhaps our mind's greatest adaptation: our ability to use reason.

Imagine that."

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com: "In addition to these adaptations, humans have developed the remarkable ability to think about what goes on in other people's minds and create and rehearse complex interactions with an unseen other. In our minds we can de-couple cognition from time, place and circumstance. We consider what someone else might do in our place; we project future scenarios; we replay past events. It's an easy jump to say, conversing with the dead or to conjuring gods and praying to them."

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com: "Like our physiological DNA, the psychological mechanisms behind faith evolved over the eons through natural selection. They helped our ancestors work effectively in small groups and survive and reproduce, traits developed long before recorded history, from foundations deep in our mammalian, primate and African hunter-gatherer past.

For example, we are born with a powerful need for attachment, identified as long ago as the 1940s by psychiatrist John Bowlby and expanded on by psychologist Mary Ainsworth. Individual survival was enhanced by protectors, beginning with our mothers. Attachment is reinforced physiologically through brain chemistry, and we evolved and retain neural networks completely dedicated to it. We easily expand that inborn need for protectors to authority figures of any sort, including religious leaders and, more saliently, gods. God becomes a super parent, able to protect us and care for us even when our more corporeal support systems disappear, through death or distance."

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods - latimes.com: "Before John Lennon imagined 'living life in peace,' he conjured 'no heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too.'

No religion: What was Lennon summoning? For starters, a world without 'divine' messengers, like Osama bin Laden, sparking violence. A world where mistakes, like the avoidable loss of life in Hurricane Katrina, would be rectified rather than chalked up to 'God's will.' Where politicians no longer compete to prove who believes more strongly in the irrational and untenable. Where critical thinking is an ideal. In short, a world that makes sense."

Heat wave scorches central United States - Yahoo! News

Heat wave scorches central United States - Yahoo! News: "In Texas, where a drought has withered crops and sparked wildfires, wildlife rescuers noted adult deer were abandoning their fawns because they were unable to feed them.
'Nature can be cruel,' said animal rescuer Karen Maxfield."

Casey Anthony all over emotional map: lawyer - CBS News

"She is a virtual Hester Prynne of our society with a scarlet letter, a well-known face. So she is still in many ways confined."

Casey Anthony all over emotional map: lawyer - CBS News:

"There was a crowd of several hundred people," she recalled. "We were facing the front of the jail. The booking and release center, which is where she ultimately came out of. And I had just averted my eyes from the door to sort of move along the crowd and watch when she came out and jumped in a car. And I saw the caravan passing and I just stood back as I watched the crowd surge toward the caravan of cars. They were barricaded by a fence; they couldn't actually get to the car. But people went out into the street and there were mounted police officers keeping the crowd back. And some people in the crowd were yelling 'killer, killer.' People had signs. And it was just surreal as I saw this reaction to this woman who, you know, is trying to get her life back. It was strange."

***

July 5th, 2011, the day the jury found Casey Anthony not guilty of  first degree murder was the same day I waited all afternoon to be released from Georgia Regional Hospital after finally speaking with a doctor, Dr. Needly, for the first time time that morning after spending seven days being worked through the system after first involuntarily admitted to DeKalb Crisis Center.

That afternoon was also the same afternoon I observed a young black woman/nurse who seemed extremely frustrated/agitated and in a hurry trying to finish her job responsibilities so she could leave and rushing out of the hospital she finally did without looking back; me wondering if a single mother needing to pick up a child from daycare or something like that; it being about the right time of the day.

Eventually I sat down and thought I would try watching whatever was on the television set the others were watching. Although my hearing aid battery had been dead for 3 days, didn't matter, the volume on these TV sets were never loud enough for me anyway.  And closed caption me and a transgendered ordained minister/mortician named Leslie Fields had already tried unsuccessfully requesting for me the previous day.

And this is when breaking news announced the jury's verdict regarding the Caylee Marie Anthony Murder Trail.  Everyone from nurses, patients, doctors, and other staff members stopped what they were doing and all stood in stunned silence looking in disbelief at each other.

But not me.
I was jumping all over the place shouting with joy,
"YES!  YES!  YES!"

When asked by one of the nurses,
"Why?"

"No one had seen Caylee for 30 days!
And I refuse to believe Casey... ALONE... should be held... RESPONSIBLE... for that child's death.
THAT WHOLE FAMILY IS FUCKED UP!
The clues were there, I'm sure!  Plenty of them!  Shouldn't have happened!
It's called... 
DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY!"
~(Simply Jim:  Truly Blue Bleeding Heart Liberal)~

Soon after this breaking new, they put me in a taxi and sent me on my way home.

Not only did I find my house locked just like the DKPD told me they had no choice doing when requesting, twice,  they leave the doors unlocked the day they lead me out of my house in handcuffs,  found the house extremely hot! They had turned off the AC at the unit in the basement instead of using the thermostat in the hallway.

Relieved to see that my two cats still had water and dry cat food in their bowls; I then walked over to the stove and lifted the lid off a pan sitting on top.

Almost fainted from the stench that rose out of that pan like a cloud overwhelming me.
Immediately grab the handle of the pan and rushed out the sun room door onto the deck with it.

And this is when I notice one big carpet of mold growing inside the pan; 
the prettiest royal blue I've ever seen.

But... 
"it smelled like a dead body had been in it!"

That pan stayed outside for several days before I was willing to near it again.
***

 Death of Caylee Anthony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Caylee Marie Anthony (August 9, 2005 – 2008) was a two-year-old American girl who lived in Orlando,  Florida with her mother, Casey Marie Anthony, and her maternal grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. On July 15, 2008, she was reported missing to 9-1-1 by Cindy, who said she had not seen Caylee for 31 days and that Casey's car smelled like a dead body had been inside it. Cindy said Casey had given varied explanations as to Caylee's whereabouts before finally telling her that she had not seen Caylee for weeks. Casey told detectives several falsehoods, including that the child had been kidnapped by a nanny on June 9, and that she had been trying to find her, too frightened to alert the authorities. She was charged with first degree murder in October 2008 and pleaded not guilty.

On December 11, 2008, Caylee's skeletal remains were found with a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the family home. Investigative reports and trial testimony alternated between duct tape being found near the front of the skull and on the mouth of the skull. The medical examiner mentioned duct tape as one reason she ruled the death a homicide, but officially listed it as "death by undetermined means".

The trial lasted six weeks, from May to July 2011. The prosecution sought the death penalty and alleged Casey murdered her daughter to free herself from parental responsibilities by administering chloroform and applying duct tape. The defense team, led by Jose Baez, countered that the child had drowned accidentally in the family's swimming pool on June 16, 2008, and that George Anthony disposed of the body. The defense contended that Casey lied about this and other issues because of a dysfunctional upbringing, which they said included sexual abuse by her father. The defense did not present evidence as to how Caylee died, nor evidence that Casey was sexually abused as a child, but challenged every piece of the prosecution's evidence, calling much of it "fantasy forensics". Casey did not testify. On July 5, 2011, the jury found Casey not guilty of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child, but guilty of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to a law enforcement officer. With credit for time served, she was released on July 17, 2011. A Florida appeals court overturned two of the misdemeanor convictions on January 25, 2013.

The not guilty murder verdict was greeted with public outrage, and was both attacked and defended by media and legal commentators. Some complained that the jury misunderstood the meaning of reasonable doubt, while others said the prosecution relied too heavily on the defendant's allegedly poor moral character because they had been unable to show conclusively how the victim had died. Time magazine described the case as "the social media trial of the century".

Opinions varied on what made the public thoroughly invested in the trial. Safon argued the Anthonys having been a regular and "unremarkable" family with complex relationships made them intriguing to watch.  Frank Farley of CNN described the circumstantial evidence as "all over the map" and that combined with "the apparent lying, significant contradictions and flip-flops of testimony, and questionable or bizarre theories of human behavior, it is little wonder that this nation [was] glued to the tube". He said it was a trial that was both a psychologist's dream and nightmare, and believes that much of the public's fascination [had] to do with the uncertainty of a motive for the crime. Psychologist Dr. Karyl McBride discussed how some mothers stray away from "the saintly archetype" expected of mothers. "We want so badly to hang onto the belief system that mothers don't harm children," she stated. "It's fascinating that the defense in the Anthony case found a way to blame the father. While we don't know what is true and maybe never will, it is worth taking a look at the narcissistic family when maternal narcissism rules the roost. Casey Anthony is a beautiful white woman and the fact that the case includes such things as sex, lies, and videotapes makes it irresistible."

When the not-guilty verdict was rendered, there was significant outcry among the general public and media that the jury made the wrong decision. Outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reacted with anger, chanting their disapproval and waving protest signs. People took to Facebook and Twitter, as well as other social media outlets, to express their outrage. Traffic to news sites surged from about two million page views a minute to 3.3 million, with most of the visits coming from the United States. Mashable reported that between 2 pm and 3 pm, one million viewers were watching CNN.com/live, 30 times higher than the previous month's average. Twitter's trending topics in the United States were mostly about the subjects related to the case, and Newser reported that posts on Facebook were coming in "too fast for all Facebook to even count them, meaning at least 10 per second". Some people referred to the verdict as "O.J. Number 2", and various media personalities and celebrities expressed outrage via Twitter.  News anchor Julie Chen became visibly upset while reading the not-guilty verdict on The Talk and had to be assisted by her fellow co-hosts, who also expressed their dismay.

Disagreement with the verdict was heavily debated by the media, lawyers and psychologists, who put forth several theories for public dissatisfaction with the decision, ranging from wanting justice for Caylee, to the circumstantial evidence having been strong enough, to some blaming the media.   UCLA forensic psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman, said, "The main reason that people are reacting so strongly is that the media convicted Casey before the jury decided on the verdict. The public has been whipped up into this frenzy wanting revenge for this poor little adorable child. And because of the desire for revenge, they've been whipped up into a lynch mob." She added, "Nobody likes a liar, and Anthony was a habitual liar. And nobody liked the fact that she was partying after Caylee's death. Casey obviously has a lot of psychological problems. Whether she murdered her daughter or not is another thing."

There was a gender gap in perceptions to the case. According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll of 1,010 respondents, about two-thirds of Americans (64 percent) believed Casey Anthony "definitely" or "probably" murdered her daughter; however, women were much more likely than men to believe the murder charges against Anthony and to be upset by the not-guilty verdict.   The gender gap has partly been explained by "the maternal instinct". The idea of a mother murdering her own child is a threat to the ideal of motherhood.

Sunday Classes

Sunday Classes: "COVENANT CLASS
The Covenant Class, which meets in room 420, is composed of adult singles and couples and is led by Bob and Janet Gary. This is a group-centered experience in which members covenant to support each other’s journey toward mature faith as Christians. Confidentiality is maintained to facilitate personal sharing. All are welcome.

For more information, contact Bob and Janet at ggary@emory.edu."

***

"OH!  We're not that kind of Christian,"

said Janet the first day we met; that day a little old lady with white hair crossed over to my side of the street first, all excited having been approached by property developer offering  twice the market value of their home on the condition all seven consecutive lots her side of the street agreed to sell. 

Apparently a major adrenaline rush; me being the first person she saw as I was either working in my front yard or checking to see if any mail. Had lived in my house at last a couple of years before that day: There was a reason I did not approach them first!

"I'm gay.  I'm atheist,"

I casually interjected into our little chat.

In other words....

get back on your side of the street, stop wasting my time,  if a problem.

Bless their poor little hearts...

they sign on...

someone held out.

Now they are stuck with me as a neighbor who know a dirty little secret.

WHAT A COUPLE OF OXYMORON'S!

Drawings From High School Art Class

BIRTH OF VENUS

THE FROG PRINCE

Casey Anthony freed from US jail early Sunday - Yahoo! News

Seven gruelling days without any information or reasons given why I was placed in Dekalb Crisis instead of taken to jail when I insisted on being read my Miranda rights. (In my mind, either I had broken a law or not; wanted everything said and done from that point as evidence rather than he said/she said. There were just too many people involved, and felt that the fact I lived alone with two cats was unfairly being taken advantage of.  It was the only way I could think of to get everyone (family, neighbors, work associates, friends, etc.) on the same page...

Handed papers with rules supposed to adhere to while there.  Not only would they not read the rules to me after refusing to accept the papers, repeatedly telling them I needed reading glasses; they wouldn't even temporally loan me their glasses  to read them quickly right then and there....

 Tested negative for Chrystal Meth, HIV, TB, blood drawn for god knows what, numerous temps as well as blood pressure readings taken every day, constantly handed cups to piss in, question about my bowel movement 2-3 times daily....

On the sixth day, which happened to be Monday 4th of July, no nothing except bare essential as most staff had the day off, hearing aid battery goes dead.  Not only no glasses to read; no one to call to bring me a battery.  Repeatedly being told they were working on getting me a battery without letting me tell them what battery size I needed. Even suggested having a cop swing by my place and get one....free....out of my Jeep which was unlocked.  Couldn't have conversations with the other "consumers" as we were derogatorily referred to as; viewed  a tax burden in an underfunded program with finite resources instead of "patients" with real problems...
 
Finally meeting a doctor on the seventh day, just before noon on Tuesday, everyone back from having Monday 4th of July day off,  face to face who couldn't figure out why I was in the Georgia Regional Hospital/Atlanta.  He was expecting me to answer that question as he had no clue after scanning seven days worth of papers/notes supposedly kept in a file with my name on it....


Couldn't honestly answer that question either, except that I had a Chrystal Meth addiction ended up having to do my own intervention as I was extremely isolated and alone; only to end up even more isolated and alone.

So he switched me from involuntary commitment to voluntary commitment and informed me I was allowed to check myself out if I wanted to leave....


No recommended counseling or medications to take....

Waiting around another 7 hours as they prepared the discharge papers and arrange cab fare home....

And just before they told me a cab was on it way.......

The verdict of Casey Anthony trails was splashed acrossed the television  in writing I could read...

Acquitted of all charges except misleading statements to police! 

Everyone appalled at the verdict; with only me jumping around in joy .


THAT FAMILY WAS FUCKED UP!  AND IT WAS WRONG FOR CASEY TO BE PUT ON TRAIL FOR THAT POOR LITTLE GIRLS DEATH ALONE!  NO DOUBT IN MY MIND CLUES WERE PLENTIFUL LONG BEFORE THAT TRAGIC DAY!  EVERYONE TOO BUSY LIVING IN DENIAL! OR BELIEVING SOMEONES ELSE RESPONSIBILITY!  CAYLEE DEATH WAS A BLESSING FOR THAT LITTLE GIRL.  WHO WOULD HAVE NOTICED THE ABUSED HAD SHE NOT DISAPPEARED TO BEGIN WITH?

THEN I ARRIVED HOME TO AN EMPTY HOT HOUSE; SOMEONE APPARENTLY HAVING TURNED THE AIR CONDITIONER OFF....  AND THAT SMELLED OF DEATH.  CHICKEN FLORENTINE PASTA DISH HAD SAT UNREFRIGERATED FOR SEVEN DAYS ON THE STOVE. 

FORTUNATELY FOR MY TWO CATS...THEY HAD THE COOL BASEMENT TO RETREAT TO AS WELL AS HOME IN TIME TO FEED THEM AS THEY HAD VERY LITTLE LEFT.
WHEN I WENT BACK TO DEKALB CRISIS CENTER TO GET COPIES OF MEDICAL RECORDS;  HARDLY ANYTHING OF IMPORTANCE; NOT EVEN THE ELEVATED TEMPERATURE UPON ADMITTANCE HAVING  SAT HANDCUFFED, SWEATING, UNATTENDED, BACK SEAT, POLICE CAR, AIR CONDITIONED BUT TURNED OFF AT FIRST UNTIL TURNED ON WHEN I TOLD THE COP ON A BRIEF RETURN: "YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAST A DOG OR BABY CAN DIED LEFT ALONE IN A SEALED CAR!".   EVEN THEN CONTINUED TO SWEAT PROFUSELY AS THE AIR WAS  NOT CIRCULATING AROUND THE SOLID PLEXIGLAS DIVIDER TO THE BACK SEAT FAST ENOUGH.

AND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARRIVE AT THE CRISIS CENTER WITH DISORGANIZED BEHAVIOR.

IN AND OUT IN SEVEN DAYS AND NOT A DAMN THING CHANGED.

Casey Anthony freed from US jail early Sunday - Yahoo! News: "Casey Anthony was freed from a Florida jail early Sunday, 12 days after she was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in a verdict that drew furious responses and even threats from people across the U.S. who had followed the case with rapt attention."

Guerrilla Artist

Snapshots Photos | Snapshots Pictures - Yahoo! News

Snapshots Photos Snapshots Pictures - Yahoo! News: "A Dalmatian named Milly who herself was born in a huge and rare litter of 16 puppies has proved lightning can strike twice after she also gave birth to 16 beautiful spotted pups six weeks ago on 28 May. Milly's new arrivals were delivered at Newlands Veterinary Clinic in Ludlow, Shropshire. They are now being cared for at home by Lisa and Terry Elvins and their daughters in near Church Stretton, Shropshire, before they are all but one found new homes."

Ballad of the Green Beret

Hoje e u um dia especial

Ha uma razao para eu escrever:
Tenho noticias para com partilhar...
Nenhum problema para contar.
E upenas um daqueles momentos...
am que pensei em alquem especial.
e gostaria de lhe dizer:
Boa tarde


Portuguese - detected to English translation


Today a special day and u

There is a reason for me to write:

I have news to share ...

No problem to tell.

Upen And one of those moments ...

I thought bushels am special.

and would like to tell you:

good afternoon

Consumer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Was recently admitted to Dekalb Crisis Center involuntarily.

Talk about a blue pill / red pill moment.

Was in and out in seven days...

and on the seventh day the doctor kept asking me:

"What are you in here for?"

He couldn't figure it out;

so he switched me over to voluntary and I was allowed to check myself out...

 if I didn't want to stay there any longer. 

I've already spent more than 24 hours trying to get a replacement battery for my hearing aid (twice getting an injection against my will for disorderly conduct); another 12 hours waiting without a battery for them to process the paper work for me to check myself out and arrange cab fare home.  I do not understand why they didn't just use the same three nice policemen who handcuffed me and brought me there in the first place. 

We were referred to as "consumers" instead of "patients" because we consumed limited resources...

 the middle aged white lady in red so flippantly aswered

(vast majority of workers were black men and women).

 SO REPUBLICAN!

 

 

 

Made me think of the two bumper stickers on the back of an SUV... 

 

 

On one side:

On the other side:

What a stupid

GOD DAMN BITCH...

that's a M.A.D.D. dog ain't it?!

There were a lot of good people among the staff and patients. 

Many bad apples among the staff as well.

Consumer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In India, the Consumer Protection Act 1986 clearly differentiates a consumer as consuming a commodity or service either for his personal domestic use or to earn his livelihood. Only consumers are protected as per this act and any person, entity or organization purchasing a commodity for commercial reasons are exempted from any benefits of this act.[5] Furthermore, Indian case law has quite a few references on how to distinguish a consumer from a customer"

The "consumer" is the one who consumes the goods and services produced. As such, consumers plays a vital role in the economic system of a nation because in the absence of the effective demand that emanates from them, the economy virtually collapses. Mahatma Gandhi said a customer is the most important visitor in our premises. He is not dependent on us, we are on him. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it.

There is increasing backlash from the public over use of the label "consumer" rather than "customer", with many finding it offensive and derogatory.

Jim Nabors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jim Nabors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "As he was 'never without a job' for four decades, Nabors has never married: according to him, he was 'really more married to his career'. Consequently, he has been the target of rumors alleging he is gay. In the 1970s, a rumor began circulating that Nabors and then-closeted actor Rock Hudson were to marry. Though supposedly intended as a joke (with the punchline being that Hudson would then be known as 'Rock Pyle'), the rumor was picked up by media and spread across the country. Nabors was 'horrified' by the rumor, as he felt that it hindered his ability to portray himself as something other than a comedic character.
Nabors began vacationing in Hawaii in the 1960s, and in 1976, moved from Bel Air, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. For 25 years, he owned a macadamia nut plantation on Maui before selling it to the National Tropical Botanical Gardens, a conservationist organization (he still retains farming rights to the land and owns a second home on the property)"

The Body Odd - Does sex have to be naughty to be fun?

The Body Odd - Does sex have to be naughty to be fun?: "Does sex have to be taboo-breaking to be hot? And now that just about every taboo has been broken, have people under 40 lost interest?"

Black men may survive longer in prison than out - Health - Men's health - msnbc.com

Black men may survive longer in prison than out - Health - Men's health - msnbc.com: "Researchers say it's not the first time a study has found lower death rates among certain groups of inmates -- particularly disadvantaged people, who might get protection against violent injuries and murder.

'Ironically, prisons are often the only provider of medical care accessible by these underserved and vulnerable Americans,' said Hung-En Sung of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

'Typically, prison-based care is more comprehensive than what inmates have received prior to their admission,' Sung, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health by email."

Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English: "Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis."