That was a thoughtful and important deconstruction of Mr. Saletan’s excesses. Seriously. Although it may also be true, as some readers seem to suggest, that the opposing constructions are reactions on opposite ends of a stuck dialectic.

If Tracey were truly an armchair psychiatrist, she would likely have no deeper concerns that a reflexive urge to prescribe Celexa for post-partum depression. Now if, however, she were an armchair psychologist or therapist . . . .

sport played out among boys

I like it.

Addictive use of food, like that of any mood-altering substance, may be triggered by proximal external cues, but is chronically driven by unresolved inner distress like anxiety, fear, depression, guilt, auditory hallucinations, etc. and associated distorted cognitions. Until those mental health issues are treated, relapse risk remains very high.

And no.

We know with certainty that 12-step programs reliably fail. No credible entity considers them to constitute treatment. That’s partly because they actively promote addictive behavior (smoke break!) and because the pseudo-religious “interventions” are demonstrably countertherapeutic. Relapse rates are 90 to 95%. If you like those odds, find a meeting.

Id – take that bitch, that’ll teach ya

Superego – thou shalt not, now this should teach you

Popular culture – WTF?

Havrileskian New Being – thou mayest, let’s talk, pass the mango

Dionysus and Pan – OMG let’s get this party started

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What are they killing and being killed for?

Why do you identify with them?

Perhaps you and they have pledged an allegiance to the very same Flag.

Yes. That would make sense then.

Hasn’t New President made it clear that God has some concerns about the Gays?

I’m down with Wolf and C-F’s agile and muscular psychosexual analyses, but I think that X.H. is quite correct – the flip-flop she did on Iraq after Daddy barked was weak, disingenuous and dumb.

Does a model feminist still answer to Daddy?

is knowing that the first couple’s matrimonial bondage is rooted in faith and specifically President’s personal relationship with the baby Jeebus.

I would like to see more from Broadsheet on the first couple’s marriage, how they worship together, take instruction from their faith (e.g. on the Gays), how they make amends for the campaign lies, how President received word from Jeebus that Pakistanis must be bombed and killed, etc., etc. When a marriage is strong, a country is strong

She totally protects us, and a million dead Iraqis are the proof.

Also? She will never take away our guns. What feminist wouldn’t be enthralled?

Spin needed.

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and be less troubled by the darkness and lack of fit with a more redeeming or socially normed narrative than Ms. H., who once again so effectively shared ambivalence and insight with readers. Heather’s description brought up for me classic literary characters and themes of existential anxiety and despair - this nurse trying to make sense of, and hold onto some sense of dignity and authenticity in, a system that easily generates huge profits but requires a rebel, a rule-breaker, in order to “ . . . prevent[ing] the system from crushing the sick and uninsured”. In a world gone that crazy and dark, where every day is a battle and risk to provide real care to those the system was meant to serve, what’s not to understand about “contradictions”? If she’s challenging dumb docs and venal administrators, then she’s on her way to getting canned, and she knows it.

In a world like that (like ours?), where up is down and good is bad, is the choice to create her own rules so dark, so “tough to parse” or something like a ray of strength?

Also? Like so many others, I continue to be quite bothered by Heather’s deficits in writing skills. Honestly, it is barely tolerable to wade through these pieces week after week, month after month, year after year. At the same time, I am glad to note the immense improvements she has made directly as the result of comments I have been providing.

Oh. Dr. Dan? Nice try but no prize. But wouldn’t that be wonderfully soothing? If addictive behavior could somehow, against all evidence, be constructed as some kind of “brain disease” (unlucky me!) ? What a soothing relief to have all those vexing and distressing concerns about early experiences, ownership of choices and behaviors, needs for growth and change, all melt away, soothed, put out of mind, like . . . . . well, like an intoxication. Hang in there.

12-dimensional chess master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL

“He’s only had 4 months!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL

involuntarily channeling Dick Cheney . . . . . . . . . FAIL

Saving the Troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL

What’s up with Michelle’s wardrobe? . . . . . . . . . FAIL

Predictable expressions of criminally-disordered thinking and behavioral traits that have been apparent all along, antisocial traits always necessary to gain status and power in American Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

This is why I, for one, am so relieved and proud to have a New President who happens to be an intellectual – able to think up solutions to the vexing problems he inherited that are effective, legal, efficient, and, well, just plain smart.

These foreigners are after all dangerous individuals suspected of sympathizing with organizations that plan violent reactions to the interests and actions that the U.S. must implement throughout the world ! Who will benefit from exposing the collateral details of their detainment, of various facts and sensitive materials that could come up during trials, of the sometimes unpleasant techniques necessary to extract confessions? Why put America through that distress?

By simply dispatching these suspected enemies, we would be looking forward, not backward. I say this is simply more smart policy from a smart President, a Christian man who is strong in his faith.

For analysis of this particular issue please link at sig or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TDgkOOlbwg

It is for the Homeland.

with the Gang of Six.

of President’s eloquent utterances, link at sig.

Or here: www.alternet.org/world/140462/chomsky%3A_what_obama_didn%27t_say_in_his_cairo_address_speaks_volumes_about_his_mideast_policy/