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Archive for May, 2008

DVR, Dr. Phil, and Why I Don’t Fit In

( American Culture )

To get more sleep, I got myself a DVR to record John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I know they re-air at 8 pm the following evening, but I’m usually not in front of the TV until about 9:30, so I saw the general “necessity” (read in the context of my white pseudo-bourgeois lifestyle) to have […]

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Speech, Language, Development, Biology, and Why This World Makes No Sense

( On Being an Artist and Personal Courage and Adoption and public schools and mental illness and advocacy and compassion and parenthood )

My son’s psychiatrist is going out of business (I guess you have to say “closing her practice”) because she can get paid only 37% of the time from the insurance companies. She is a developmental pediatrician AND a child psychiatrist so charges health insurance as a primary care physician. I like that mental health treatment […]

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“Off With Their Heads!” “Give us Barabbas!” and Other Musings About The Culture of Retribution

( Personal Courage and American Culture and mental illness and recovery and advocacy and compassion )

I am a day late in the May 1 Blogging Against Disablism event. Life intervened on my schedule, and I’ve been working on this post for a few days. Although this is tardy, I offer it as my contribution.
A little over a year ago, a student named Cho Seung-Hui went on a shooting rampage at […]

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