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One-legged man bicycles his way out of bitterness…
An excellent human interest story from the LA Times about Felix Hackenberg, the one-legged bicyclist who is often seen cruising the hills of Griffith Park in LA. The message Felix (a name which means “happiness” in Latin) gives is this: “… he has let go of the despair that followed the loss of his leg. […]
New video on mandatory mental health screening
I’m of the opinion that mandatory mental health screening is nuts. There are politicians and lobby groups from the APA and Big Pharma in Washington DC right now pushing “The Mother’s Act”, which should really be called the “Medicating All Mothers” Act. The real purpose of this lobbying effort is to get a whole new […]
SEO audit of an online directory
I just completed an SEO audit (an alalysis of the points that make a site search engine friendly) of a directory and sent the owner and her webmaster a list of 20 things that need to be done to make it more search engine friendly. I tried to cover both on-page and off-page SEO points. […]
Difference Between a Disease and a Psychiatric Disorder
This is a short entertaining video from CCHR about the difference between a Disease and a Psychiatric Disorder Love the “cha-ching” at the end. And how you can’t tell the psychiatrists from the drug company reps without looking closely. So the next time a psychiatrist tells you your kid needs a psych drug to handle […]
In memory of Baby Indiana – why we need to stop “The Mother’s Act”
This heartwrenching video about Baby Indiana, born with breathing problems caused by her mother taking the antidepressant Effexor during pregnancy, points people to the Unite For Life website. The video is a photo documentary of the problems leading to the death of this beautiful baby girl. The purpose of the insidiously named “Mother’s Act” is […]
Tax Day Tea Party “Flash Mob” – Coos Bay, Oregon
I don’t usually talk about politics or economics, except as they relate to psychiatric abuse, government funding of the field of psychiatry or big pharma. (Can you really tell those two apart these days?) But after hearing about it on twitter, I decided to attend the tax day “Tea Party” in Coos Bay, Oregon, on […]
The sunspot count keeps dropping; what’s that mean?
What does it mean that the sunspot count for the first three months of 2009 (when 87% of days were without ANY sunspots) is even lower than the average for last year (2008, when 73% of all days had no sunspots), which was the lowest year since 1913? See this article on sunspot activity. What […]
Free widget – make a button so people can easily follow you
Rafferty Pendery over at Social Follow has come up with a new FREE tool that lets you create a button so that others can easily follow you on your favorite social media sites, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook (my three personal favorites). His free tool allows you to set up easily used “follow me” […]
FDA Demands Big Pharma Stop Misleading Ads on Google, Yahoo
Very interesting article on Advertising Age detailing letters sent to top drug makers telling them to stop ads on Google and Yahoo touting the benefits of their drugs, without also describing potential risks. How are they going to do that in the constraints of a Google Adwords ad? They aren’t. Reporter Marissa Miley says: “The […]