Psych Meds Keep You "Sick" & Make You WORSE

Evidence is mounting that psych meds are making people (& populations) worse, not better. Nations that don't keep their patients on meds have a higher recovery rate than, the "rich & modern" nations like...

Dear John (USPS)

Dear John USPS, the last thing i have time for right now is a blog entry, and yet here it is. in two days i'll be moving, and so it was, at one of the worst possible times, that i sold a dvd on amazon. don't get me...

Software Industrial God Complex

Dear 800-pound-software-gorillas:The more engineering time you waste binding your products together into confusing suites/packages (adding questionable "value-added" features) & then "protecting" them with...

Challenging Popular Myths About Autism

i could say a lot about the popular myths about autism, but i happily don't need to: someone already wrote an absolutely fantastic article. RACHEL COHEN-ROTTENBERG wrote such an accessible, accurate, direct and personally touching article on the topic, i thought it should...

Flickr Recognized Yet Again for Complete Disregard of its Users

The complaint (box quoted to the left in two parts) comes from a friend who asked to remain anonymous. Remember, complaints are like cockroaches: when you hear one, there are a thousand more you don't hear. ...

Richard Stallman: Open Sores' Arrogant Sexist? [UPDATED x3]

UPDATE: 8-20-09: i wish to retract my unduly harsh use of the term "sociopath" in describing Richard Stallman. my sincere apologies. there are some excellent arguments, very well worded in a comment posting below...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

Coplay, PA: Land of Intolerant, Archaic, Toxic Madness

This is a very reactionary "opinion" piece about Coplay PA, where i've been abused for over four years. i feel it is important for others to know that this is an UNSAFE and TOXIC community for those with Autism/Asperger's Syndrome. It also includes references to abusive...

Parents and Doctors Create Monsters Out of Autistics

i am calling for the immediate public shaming of, and lawsuits for abuse, against Ann Bauer, the mother of Andrew Bauer, a person who started life as autistic and has since been destroyed and changed into a violent...

Sex, Lies, and Asperger [Syndrome]

In 2006, Jacob Heinz, a native of Bensalem, PA, was jailed on charges of soliciting sex from a thirteen year old.In 2006, Jacob Heinz, a young man with Aspergers, was entrapped by police, locked in a cell for four...

GUTTED by flickr

What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...

HFCS - Now in your TV! Sweet!

well, of course that lovable HFCS has always been a pixelated glimmer in our eyes, working behind the scenes of all our favorite products as they nimbly dance across the screen. finally the corn refinement...

Happy "National Shame Day II" 2008 [UPDATED]

(Originally Written for Tuesday, November 25, 2008)Definitely Opinion(ated) As it was in 2007 for Jace, being too worn out to rant, so too it is for me, Intransitivus (who said she quit) this year in 2008....

Cops Above the Law: The Friends and Family Plan

Written Sunday, November 16, 2008, by Victory Grey of Dysamoria:  As enforcers of the law, police have some leeway when it comes to obeying it. For instance, a cop on duty may legally run a red light when ...

Elementary Social Studies Should Include More Cultural Anthropology

First I'd like to share a quote from the first lecture in Edward Fischer's Teaching Company course Peoples and Cultures of the World. He defines cultural anthropology by describing how it differs from other...
 

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