My cousin's kid is 9 years old; he gets ten mg of Adderall XR a day. And a small cup of coffee from his loving aunt. He's mesmerized by the television as we speak. I have ear plugs in. I am in the basement.
I wonder how it is that this has come to pass? Rather, how it is that loving, if busy, parents can submit their children to the merciless will of pharmaco-allah? Does this reflect an improvement in the standard of living, or in child-care management in general? If so, why not export the revolution?
In the begining was the TV and children saw it and it was good.
Then there were the psycho-stimulants that produced pharmacologically managed childhood for when the electronic eye could not be accessed.
One wonders what is next? Maybe some sort of teddy ruxbin type animal that dispenses pills AND advice and whose face is a television? Who knows?
MedicalMecanica anyone?
8/14/2007
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Vote Ron Paul
From Wikipedia's write up on Brazil:
"Sam is not so much beset by malicious characters as he is by a vast, impersonal, and indifferent social structure that is both hypocritical and pedantic for its own sake. The individual villains are neither malicious nor sadistic, they are merely doing their jobs.
Isn't America turning into this dystopia? Don't we need Ron Paul in the White house to stop this madness?
"Sam is not so much beset by malicious characters as he is by a vast, impersonal, and indifferent social structure that is both hypocritical and pedantic for its own sake. The individual villains are neither malicious nor sadistic, they are merely doing their jobs.
The jilted sense of priorities that adult life often entails are also another theme. The elevation of meaningless considerations of status and vanity over personal happiness and well being is continuously portrayed throughout the movie. At one point, a police officer encourages a prisoner to cooperate, not because he is about to be tortured but because prolonged imprisonment could jeopardize his credit rating."
Isn't America turning into this dystopia? Don't we need Ron Paul in the White house to stop this madness?
6/12/2007
Toxic fumes may have made gunman snap
tetrachloroethylene
Whatever led to Cho Seung-hui's madness may have been exacerbated by tetrachloroethylene, a toxic chemical his parents have been chronically exposed to in their career as dry cleaners, one expert suspects.
Dr. Dolores Malaspina, chairwoman of New York University School of Medicine's psychiatry department, recently found that kids of dry cleaners are 3-1/2 times more likely to develop schizophrenia.
Cho's parents, Cho Sung and Cho Hyang, have worked in dry cleaning for 15 years.
"The toxin [tetrachloroethylene] ... gets in the clothing, the hair and the skin of everyone in a dry-cleaning household," says Malaspina. "The vapors are very volatile - it's an airborne toxin."
Children of dry cleaners would come in contact with the dangerous fumes during likely visits to his parents' workplace. But the parents also would carry home inhalable particles each day they returned from work.
Cho has never been officially diagnosed with schizophrenia, but his documented mental problems and family work history make for a "very intriguing" argument for such a diagnosis, said Malaspina.
The doctor did the study while at the New York Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. She and other researchers studied 88,829 Israeli children born to parents who worked as dry cleaners.
Tetrachloroethylene - aka perchloroethylene, "Perc" or "PCE" - also has been linked to cancer and birth defects. Though it's absorbed slowly across skin, the mere presence can release inhalable vapors.
Organic dry cleaners do not use the chemical.
The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry says chronic exposure to Perc "can result in memory and concentration impairment, vision disturbances, dizziness, irritability, ataxia, sleep disturbances and peripheral neuropathy."
New York City requires dry cleaners using Perc to have special air permits and use up-to-date equipment.
Last July, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered all Perc machines out of residential buildings by July 2009, over fears that Perc vapors may be dangerous to residents. An estimated 75,000 New Yorkers live in buildings housing Perc machines.
PLEASE SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!?
WHY YES YOU MAY!
6/10/2007
Hey Bitches! Someone cleans up another wiki article I started!!!
Old Man River City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_River_City_Project
To make the world work in the shortest possible time
through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense
or the disadvantage of anyone. -RBF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_River_City_Project
To make the world work in the shortest possible time
through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense
or the disadvantage of anyone. -RBF
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