I’ve been a self-help junkie for about thirty years. There’s nothing quite like the high you get from reading a good self help book. I’ve never had the money or the urge to take the next step and attend a conference or a workshop or a retreat. Our hero in Enlightened is a woman who had a bit of a breakdown and then went to Hawaii for treatment. In standard not the real world fashion, she goes back to work for the company that helped her to have her breakdown in the first place. Amy is still a nutcase when…
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Gun Nuts and Just Plain Nuts
“An armed society is a polite society.” Robert A. Heinlein It doesn’t take a trained professional to look at photos of the Phoenix Shooter-a 22-year-old charged with trying to kill a congresswoman in a shooting spree that left six dead-to realize the man is mental unstable. He has the stereotypical look of a madman, a nutcase, a loon, a man with a few screws loose, a nutjob, a nutter, a retard, a mental deficient, a crazy. But this is America, and there is no law against being crazy. Where there are laws about insanity, they usually require that the insane…