POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Marco Polo on Islam & Other Morning Reading

1400 years of Islamophobia. It's just awful.

Let's amuse him big time in November.

Psychological therapy follows literary criticism and sociology into the brave new world of secular religiosity:

I often get books on psychology sent to me by publishers, and the other day I received Jeffrey Kottler’s On Being a Therapist. The book is now in its fourth edition, and this latest edition “puts the spotlight on the therapist’s role and responsibility to promote issues of diversity, social justice, human rights, and systemic changes within the community and the world at large.”

Whoa: I thought the therapist’s role was to increase the client’s well-being and treat mental illness.

It used to be that therapists just saw clients and sent them a bill. Now — perhaps because the “sending them a bill” part has gotten more difficult in these days of managed care and public skepticism about the profession — they are transforming themselves into superhuman beings who think they can save the entire world. Therapists may have been narcissistic before, but it takes a special kind of narcissism to see one’s own self as a world-saver.

Onward, psychic soldiers.

More Bad Science.

Tater rustlers.

Scientists developing a computer that will demand your full attention when you're trying to get some work done on your cat.

Always read the fine print.

Hahahahaaaaaa. Joan Walsh on the "elitism" and racism of Tea Partiers. Considering that fully 96% of black Americans voted for Obama, that's pretty good, and might have something to do with the way they answered the questions. Whether a pollster would even think to ask similar questions regarding Tea Partiers of liberal protesters is another matter, of course. Strangely, as well, the media showed no interest in the Second Vermont Republic movement during the Bush years. Context is everything (when interpreted by a leftist), especially when it involves tenor. By his timbre, I suggest he might want to stick to music criticism, because sometimes perception is just perception, it seems. Legitimate perception is the property of the left, people, because it is imbued with the self-perceived virtue of the truly virtuous.

Part of the hypocrisy that she sees here is that many Tea Partiers are on Medicaid and Medicare. Hello: many of them are retirees who've paid into those systems all their lives. Would they have preferred to have health savings accounts? They weren't given the option. This is similar to the argument that congresspeople who opposed the stimulus should not have asked for any earmarks for their districts, which is to say, all the loot should have gone to Democrats, even though it's paid for by everybody. On the whole, it's simply outrageous that people who have ample leisure should be involved in politics . . . you know, like college students.

C'mon, any resistance to government expansion is de facto racist. At least Greenwalds are consistent.

Congressman King is apparently responsible for a Marx-quoting nutball flying a plane into an IRS office, but don't expect Joanie Baloney to cover this.

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