I've told you this before, but just in case you are new here ... I love the blog "Planet Moron." I have to restrain myself from quoting and linking to it every day. Here is a taste, give yourself a treat and a good chuckle, and read the whole thing:
ambition + hysteria = published!
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, released a groundbreaking study last month regarding the consumption of alcohol.
We know the CASA study is “groundbreaking” because that’s what CASA wrote in the press release CASA issued about the CASA study (much in the way MySpace profiles often note that the author is a “superstud”).
However, the appellation was unnecessary to anyone who truly understood the implications of the study’s startling conclusion:
The alcohol industry gets a lot of money from its best customers.
How can this be so, you ask? Consider this: They buy a lot of alcohol. (Oh sure, it’s obvious now.) ... more
Aaaaaah, I just couldn't resist. Here is one more from Planet Moron. Have a good chuckle ...
don’t make me angry. you wouldn’t like me when i’m… hey, is that prozac?
Let’s say, purely for argument’s sake, that you are sitting in your den watching your favorite college football team play a hated rival and that you lose in the very last second of the game. Shortly thereafter you find you’ve put your fist through the ceiling. Which of the following two choices best explains this behavior:
- You are an idiot.
- You are, through no personal moral failing of your own whatsoever, mentally ill and in need of expensive psychotherapy and a variety of costly medications many of which are still on patent.
If you chose “2” you just might have a career in advanced psychiatric research.
It’s called, “Intermittent Explosive Disorder” (IED) and is being used to explain various forms of anger such as “Road Rage.” Also, Howard Dean. The only known treatment is to hand over large bags of cash to psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies. ... more
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