Prague said Wednesday it will send thousands of dollars in funds to West, the small Texan town levelled last week by a factory explosion and whose residents are largely of Czech origin. “The government has approved assistance of four million koruna (150,000 euros, $200,000), on the suggestion…
Does my mom have BPD?
Dear Cary,I’ve been reading your column for years and it’s helped me a lot. Thank you for that.A recent suggestion that a daughter-in-law who throws outrageous tantrums at the end of visits might have a borderline personality disorder really struck a chord with me. The videos you linked to were so similar to my mother. For example, at least twice a year she’ll unleash a barrage of furious and hostile emails and phone calls to me and accuse me of gloating while she cries, being abusive, lambasting her and making her as miserable as I possibly can, never saying anything supportive, being secretive and a user (because I didn’t tell her that my husband and I had separated until we knew for sure we were headed for divorce) … I could go on and on. None of it matches my view of myself at all, though I do tend to close myself off and not react when she screams at me. I used to get really wrapped up in the hurtful things she says, but I’m used to it enough that it mostly gives me a week or two of feeling depressed and like I’m a horrible person, and then I just shrug and carry on.Continue Reading… … Read More
Ann Coulter: “Everyone laughed” at joke about killing Meghan McCain
Ann Coulter said something awful on Fox News about something awful she said on Fox News.In a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity, Coulter defended her “hyperbolic” suggestion that someone murder Meghan McCain in a blog post for Fox News, and called Martin Bashir’s rhetorical question about Republicans and gun violence the real scandal.h/t Media MattersContinue Reading… … Read More
Margaret Thatcher on the Morality of Science
Here’s a fun clip from what looks to be the 1990s of Margaret
Thatcher smacking down CNN anchor Bernard Shaw’s suggestion
suggestion that advanced nations are “making technology a god at
the expense of the human spirit.” ;
Christian Bale to play Moses in Ridley Scott’s biblical epic
Dark Knight Rises actor set to take the lead in Scott’s forthcoming Old Testament saga, though there is competition to get the story to the screen Christian Bale is set to play Moses in Ridley Scott’s retelling of the story of the biblical hero, according to Deadline. The suggestion…
Can men be taught not to rape?
If you want to know why we need to educate men not to be sexually aggressive, look no further than what happened when Zerlina Maxwell went on television to say that we need to educate men how not to be sexually aggressive.Maxwell was on Fox’s “Hannity” this week to discuss guns, rape and college students. The issues have been especially hot button in recent days, after Democratic Colorado state Sen. Evie Hudak delivered a tone-deaf response to a rape survivor, saying that “Statistics are not on your side even if you had a gun. And, chances are that if you would have had a gun, then he would have been able to get that from you and possibly use it against you.”As Maxwell, a rape survivor herself, told Salon on Friday, “I don’t think we need to be telling a rape survivor that statistics are not on your side. That’s insensitive.” But where she drew outrage was in her suggestion to Hannity that “I don’t think that we should be telling women anything. I think we should be telling men not to rape women and start the conversation there.” She told Hannity, “You’re talking about this as if it’s some faceless, nameless criminal, when a lot of times it’s someone you know and trust,” adding, “If you train men not to grow up to become rapists, you prevent rape.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Should accused rapists stay anonymous till conviction? Chair of UK …
The chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales is proposing an idea to protect accused rapists from the stigma of the allegations: Keep their identities secret until proven guilty. Maura McGowan made the suggestion during … … Read More
