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God’s Rottweiler & the Price of Misogyny
The Vatican must realize that the church’s belligerent, resentful and paranoid response to the global scandal is not working because it now says it will cooperate with secular justice systems and that the pope will have more meetings with victims. It is too little, too late. The church that through the ages taught me... »
Prescription Abuse – Related Deaths
Meanwhile, deaths related to prescription-drug use in Florida rose from 2,780 in 2006 to 3,317 in 2007, and then to 3,750 in 2008. The last figure is equivalent to about 10 reported deaths a day. That’s more than the number of fatalities from street drugs like cocaine and heroin. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1981582,00.html#ixzz0l5RECF6y »
Op-Ed Columnist – The Church’s Judas Moment – NYTimes.com
The church is dying from a thousand cuts. Its cover-up has cost a fortune and been a betrayal worthy of Judas. The money spent came from social programs, Catholic schools and the poor. This should be a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance. I asked a friend of mine recently what he would... »
Man convicted in fatal crash gets 15 years | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Consequences follow every choice we make…good and not so good. What strikes me here is that upon reading this article I assumed drugs or alcohol were involved. They weren’t, apparently intelligence wasn’t either… via Man convicted in fatal crash gets 15 years | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle. ….”a special... »
Vital Signs – Choking Game No Mystery to Children, Oregon Study Finds – NYTimes.com
Dozens of deaths nationwide have been attributed to the activity, in which adolescents try to achieve a high by briefly depriving the brain of oxygen through strangulation. via Vital Signs – Choking Game No Mystery to Children, Oregon Study Finds – NYTimes.com. »
Fact Check – Searching for Some Light Amid the Heat – NYTimes.com
“If you say we can offer coverage for all Americans and it won’t cost a penny, that’s just not true,” Mr. Obama said. “You can’t structure a bill where suddenly 30 million people have coverage, and it costs nothing.” via Fact Check – Searching for Some Light Amid the Heat – NYTimes.com. »
The Neediest Cases – Ronald Sykes, Army Vet, Aims to Win the Battle in His Mind – NYTimes.com
The bomb, he said, had scattered parts in a two-mile radius across Camp Liberty. It had been hidden in the trunk of a white BMW 740 — a car he will never forget. “And the smell,” he said. “I’ll never forget that, either. Like rotten fish and cabbage.”… Ronald Sykes’s body survived deployment to... »
BBC – Health – Conditions – Anger management
BBC – Health – Conditions – Anger management. »
Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks | Mother Jones
It turns out that not just some, but most of the shrinks who wrote the American Psychiatric Association’s most recent clinical guidelines for treating depression, bipolar disorders, and schizophrenia—which together account for $25 billion in prescription drug sales annually—had financial ties to drug companies via Big Pharma Psychs Out the Shrinks | Mother Jones. »