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From: SFWeekly
Lowell Turpin was arrested last week after he glanced at his girlfriend's Facebook page and saw a picture of another man -- a clean-cut, white dude that he knew for sure wasn't him.
Instead of calmly asking her about the mysterious man, the 40-year-old allegedly grabbed her laptop, smashed it against a wall, and hit her in the face, according to news reports.
Turns out that romeo in the photo was Romney, you know the guy who is running for president.
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The name sounds worse than it is.
Here is a readable summary from a psychiatrist's blog.
From the comments:
My son, also on Lithium, or supposed to be, is self-medicating with pot.
His rationale is that he needs it to stay calm and focused.
"But what about the Lithium?" I ask, "You felt OK when you were taking it regularly."
He replies, "Having to take it makes me feel like I can't be in control of myself."
When I point out that he is just substituting the pot for the Lithium, he just gets that blank stare, shutting me out.
In the mean time, he's getting (more) depressed because he can't get a job because every employer is drug screening applicants these days.
But he refuses to quit the pot and get back on the Lithium.
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From: An Ape With Angel Glands
By 1923, Germany was bankrupt and a sinister political movement was well on the way to seizing power in Europe.
This hardly sounds like an argument in favour of adversity, but the crucial point is that the Nazis – in common with all totalitarian movements - pursued a strategy of imposing order on the chaos of the time, and of imposing consent where there was dissent.
"In southern Afghanistan, there was a law and order crisis. There was rampant warlordism, and the Taliban came in as a cleansing force to establish law and order and wipe out the warlords and impose Islam, which they did. And they were quite popular doing it, initially."
The Taliban's efforts were initially embraced by the war-ravaged Afghans. But soon their promise to end the chaos of war and warlords resulted in the imposition of a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
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From: New York Times, June 30, 2012, Joel Brinkley
Stubborn and laconic, Shamir was by his own assessment a most unlikely political leader.
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