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Archive for the ‘Current Events’ Category
Judge a Book by its Cover
Posted in About This Site, Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged Amazon, book, Life is a Brief Opportunity for Joy on December 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Your Id – and Sarah Palin
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, tagged healthcare, Id, inner child, Pleasure Principle, regression, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Tea Partiers, Tea Party, Tea Party movement, thisiswhyyourefat.com on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There are foods no rational human would knowingly ingest: the stuff listed on this website. Why would you eat a double bacon peanut butter egg and cheese burger with chipotle mayo? Because you think it will taste good. To be precise, a little child inside you thinks it will taste good. That little child is [...]
The price of an addiction
Posted in Current Events, tagged addiction, alcoholism, Arnold Schwarzenegger, BP, British Petroleum, drug addiction, fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico, Michael Steele, oil spill, Sarah Palin on June 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The phrase “addicted to oil” gets bandied about a lot with reference to the USA’s massive reliance upon – and consumption of – fossil fuels. It’s worth taking a look at what drives an addiction, any addiction. First, there is the physical element – the fact that, due to your genetic predisposition, you crave a [...]
Putting our troops in harm’s way
Posted in Current Events, Radio, tagged DADT, Don't Ask Don't Tell on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was proud to be a part of a special Memorial Day edition of “The Alternative” with Terry LeGrand this week. Once Terry got me started talking about all the reasons I hate the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy towards its lesbian and gay troops, he couldn’t get me to stop. It’s a [...]
How to be Lady Gaga
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged Lady Gaga, Stefani Germanotta on May 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A young woman I worked with last week told me three thoughts that kept playing in her head like a tape: I’m not special. I’m not good at anything. It would be better if I were just dead. Listening to those voices took her down a familiar path to depression and self-destructive behavior. She admitted [...]
Ask. Tell.
Posted in Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged coming out, DADT, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Dr. Martin Luther King, gay, gays in the military, lesbian, LGBT, Lt. Dan Choi, sexual orientation on April 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes I feel like I might be the greatest therapist in the world. Like when I help a gay person out of the closet. The results are amazing. If I could put what happens to a gay person when he comes out of the closet into a bottle and sell it, I’d be a multimillionaire. [...]
Chimpanzees, Nazis, Republicans and healthcare
Posted in Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged Auschwitz, chimpanzees, Freud, Glenn Beck, healthcare, Hitler, in-group/out-group psychology, Obama, Republicans, Solahütte, Tea Party movement, Theodor Cardinal Innitzer on March 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
The first researchers to observe chimpanzees in the wild were left with an idyllic impression of our close ape cousins. They appeared to be a peaceful tribe of vegetarians, who cuddled and groomed and cared for one another in extended family units, sharing fruit and showering their young with affection. Only later, when in-depth studies [...]
Why you love Prince William and Kate Middleton
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged British Royal Family, Elizabeth II, infantilize, Kate Middleton, Louis XIV, play, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, Prince Philip, Prince William, Versailles on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote a column a few weeks back on Prince William and Kate Middleton. I possess no expertise in the British royal family. I merely stumbled upon an article in a gossip mag comparing the Prince’s girlfriend to his mother, and it provided an excuse to discuss why you might choose a spouse who resembles your [...]
Gay is good, especially for children.
Posted in Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged adaptation, adoption, evolution, extinction, gay adoption, gay adoption in Florida, gays, lesbian, LGBT, pair-bond, raising children, same-sex couples on February 20, 2010 | 5 Comments »
When gay people come out of the closet, they usually run into some variation of the “but that’s unnatural” argument. This is the apparently sensible claim that it doesn’t make sense to be gay. Isn’t sex for procreation? Why would two males or two females become romantically involved if they can’t have a child together? [...]
When the emptiness swallows you whole
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged AboveTheLaw.com, Gil Cornblum, insider trading, Suicide, Sullivan & Cromwell, Toronto on February 16, 2010 | 33 Comments »
Last October, a law school placement director friend of mine forwarded me an email with a juicy piece of big law gossip. A former associate at Sullivan & Cromwell had offed himself. He was 39. The body was discovered beneath a highway bridge in Toronto. A few days earlier, it was revealed that since the [...]
The bearded woman
Posted in Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged ambassador, beard, bearded woman, divorce, divorce rate, Dubai, marriage, veil on February 13, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Most of the Western world seems to have had a good laugh this week at an unidentified Arab ambassador to Dubai. This gentleman rushed to annul his marriage contract and cancel his wedding after he finally got a look at his bride-to-be’s face and realized she was cross-eyed and had a beard. She’d worn a [...]
The People’s Therapist stirs controversy, as is his wont
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, Current Events, tagged AboveTheLaw.com, Buzz, Facebook, Kashmir Hill, legal blog, People's Therapist, Sullivan & Cromwell, Twitter, white-shoe law firm on February 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The People’s Therapist displayed his legendary tact and discretion during a recent interview with the lovely and talented Kashmir Hill, Associate Editor of the esteemed yet tasty legal blog, AboveTheLaw.com. Despite my best efforts, tongues appear to be wagging regarding certain shocking revelations about The People’s Therapist’s previous incarnation as a high-powered Wall Street lawyer [...]
Why Scott Brown needs so much attention
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, tagged acting out, filibuster, healthcare, Judge Samuel Zoll, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Scott Brown's daughters, shop-lifting, Tea Party, Ted Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Children need a lot of attention. When they don’t get it, they’ll often act out – misbehave – in a desperate attempt to be paid attention to, even if the result is negative attention. I had a patient who used to vomit frequently as a child. It became an unpleasant regular event during family meals [...]
Prince William and why your wife might be just like your mother
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged adaptation, Diana, Kate Middleton, marriage, narcissism, Prince William, Princess Diana on February 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The People’s Therapist was working out at the gym on the elliptical trainer the other day when he realized he’d come to the end of an issue of The New York Review of Books – his customary cardiovascular/literary fare. In desperation, I reached for whatever other reading material happened to be lying around, and discovered [...]
In memory of Christine Daniels
Posted in Current Events, Thoughts and Musings, tagged bi-sexual, Christine Daniels, cross-dresser, drag king, drag queen, gay, intersex, lesbian, LGBT, Los Angeles Times, Mike Penner, remembering our dead, sportswriter, trans, transgender, transgender day of remembrance, transsexual, transvestite on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Christine Daniels was a transsexual sportswriter. For many years, she was known to thousands of sports fans as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, writing under the byline “Mike Penner.” Christine transitioned into a woman in April 2007 and began using her female name on her column. In late October 2008, she returned to [...]
And nip and tuck and nip and tuck
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, tagged addiction, breast augmentation, chin reduction, Heidi Montag-Pratt, lips collagen injections, Michael Jackson, nose job, plastic surgery, rhinoplasty on February 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The news has been full of reports of Heidi Montag-Pratt and her claim to have undergone 10 separate plastic surgery procedures in one day. That includes rhinoplasty (a nose job), breast augmentation, lip collagen injections, chin reduction, and god only knows what else. “I’m beyond obsessed,” is the frequently cited quote. It certainly sounds like [...]
Obama, O-calma and the Buddha’s refusals
Posted in Current Events, Intriguing Patients, Thoughts and Musings, tagged Baltimore, Buddha, gay, healthcare, immigrants, lesbian, LGBT, meditation, O-calma, Obama, Ocalma, Republicans, Three refusals on January 31, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The People’s Therapist is of course strictly non-partisan. It is hardly my place to take sides in political matters, and I am loathe to betray a hint of bias in these pages. However. How could anyone NOT admire our magnificent President, Barack Obama, as he faced down those ignorant Republican hacks in Baltimore last week? [...]
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