Posts Tagged ‘Social Sciences’

Fixing Social Security

January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments

I have the Social Security issue all figured out ( again ).  It doesn’t require cutting back benefits or raising taxes.  It’s simple too. Just expand the death penalty to include crimes that result in abuse or death.  That category would include molesters, drug dealers, and “insane” murderers.  Make it a lot simpler to enforce [...]

Girls making out is the new black?

February 2nd, 2007 | No Comments

That’s the teaser for this pic on Colleghumor: Girls making out is the new black. (from CollegeHumor) It seems every generation wants to shock the previous generation by doing things they THINK their parents never did.  My generation did it mainly by having guys primping like a girl, and girls appearing to be plastic replicas [...]

Tookie Williams

December 3rd, 2005 | 10 Comments

Tookie Williams is a cause celebre in Tinseltown.  He’s scheduled to die in the very near future for killing a few people.  Now, Tookie’s a little different bird.  He "created" the Crips a few years ago.  He either killed or was involved with at least four people.  He was convicted and off to prison he [...]

Mental Health Confidentiality

December 22nd, 2004 | No Comments

Near the end of her short life, Shayla Stewart, a diagnosed manic-depressive and schizophrenic, assaulted police officers and was arrested for attacking a fellow customer at a Denton Wal-Mart where she had a prescription for anti-psychotic medication. Given all those signs, her parents say, another Wal-Mart just seven miles away should have never sold her [...]

New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

November 17th, 2004 | No Comments

From a discusiion on The Motley Fool, it was brought to my attention that a serious discussion was developing over the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.  The person introducing the discussion presented it as "Zoloft for everybody".  Gotta love how some people break down a complex topic to basically inane blather. I ignored the [...]