Mental Health
"How Could this Happen?"
I wasn't going to review this book, but the issues that it brought to mind by its conclusion were more than enough to inspire me to write about it.
I could have called this review My Lobotomy, which is the title of the book and which I know is eye catching. But for me, the question that is asked of the author after a groundbreaking NPR story was done on him gets to the heart of why the book is so important and why I am writing this review. "How could this happen?" This is, sadly, a question that can be asked of many aspects of our society and which is too rarely asked.
I was browsing at my local library and saw the title My Lobotomy. When you see a title like that it's like when you hear the screech of brakes and the sound of metal hitting metal. You know there is a car wreck and you know there's something you probably shouldn't want to gawk at but you just can't help yourself. The title of the book is like that. I had no idea what the book was, but I felt compelled to check it out.
healthcare | lobotomy | Mental Health | Howard Dully | Walter Freeman
Finally somebody in the national netroots who gets Rudy Giuliani
And that guy is Ezra Klein, You don't need to make anything up, invent any scandals, concoct any problems. You just have to honestly evaluate the words coming out of Giuliani's mouth, the rhetoric coming out of his campaign, and the advisers circling the candidate. It's all there. There's no blowjob, I know, but there's a real threat, and the media should, in its role as guardian of some minimal level of competency within the political process, be pointing out that this man is dangerous, his statements scary, his campaign unsettling, and his advisers insane. His is not a normal candidacy, and so long as the reporters continue treating it as the equivalent of Hillary Clinton's campaign rather than Pat Buchanan's, we're in trouble.
Submitted by Liza Sabater on 31 October 2007 - 12:14pm.
Elections | Extremism | Fascism | Mental Health | Rhetoric | Rudy Giuliani |
Elections | Extremism | Fascism | Mental Health | Rhetoric | Rudy Giuliani |
