November 8, 2008: Dear Governor Pawlenty – One of your citizens there in Minnesota, a Mr. Ray Sanford, has been forced to undergo weekly electro-shock therapy (ECT) for several months, against his will, by court order, on an outpatient basis. Will you please investigate this abuse of his human rights and common decency? According to […]
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Anonymous – the Cyber-Terrorists
Here’s part of a statement issued by the Church of Scientology relating to the U.S. Department of Justice announcing last week the filing of federal criminal charges against Dmitriy Guzner of New Jersey, a member of the cyber-terrorist group known as Anonymous “Since January, 2008 Anonymous has been responsible for 3.6 million harassing emails and […]
Real Self-Help
My old friend Fred Hare — whom I’ve known for more than 35 years, has put up a terrific little website here called “Real Self-Help“. It’s a place where people can find out about Scientology without any of the bias and lies posted about it on various hate sites online. Funny thing — you can […]
New Book launched – Taking Charge of your Stroke Recovery
My dear friend Daveda Lamont announced today that her new book (co-written with Roger and Kathy Maxwell), Taking Charge of Your Stroke Recovery: a Personal Recovery Workbook has just been published. (I’d tell you how long I’ve known Daveda, but I don’t want to embarrass her.) This new book is about “How to pick up […]
New Rules for Psychs in the heartland – no more drug company money
It’s interesting that the largest association of Medical Doctors (not psychs) in Wisconsin has just instituted new policies barring its members from accepting gifts from drug companies, following a national trend to limit conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived. The medical doctors understand that there’s a conflict of interest whenever a doctor takes money […]
Bainbridge Ferry & Seattle
My daughter Desi and her twin girls went along with me to visit my sister near Poulsbo, Washington in early October. It’s a long trip by car from our ranch in southern Oregon, but some of the views were spectacular and we had a great time. This is a view of Seattle seen from the […]
Spider Webs
Today in the space of five minutes walking around the ranch I saw three different spiderwebs — all made by the same species of large brown spider. These spiders are about an inch long, quite fat and horrible up close. The stuff of nightmares. But they make pretty webs and catch flies, flying termites, whatever. […]
Praying Mantis
A few days ago a wild praying mantis appeared on my front porch here on the ranch, perched on the edge of a plastic water tray under a potted plant. I’d been told that praying mantises existed here in rural southern Oregon, but had never seen one during nearly ten years of living here. I […]
protecting us from ourselves…
I didn’t think much of Ronald Reagan when he was in office — he seemed to be, I don’t know, kind of senile or at least off in his own world and not very much “there”. But he made some good speeches, and one of them included this line: “Government exists to protect us from […]
Too many kids on psych drugs
Here’s a video of a recent Fox News panel discussion on the consequences of the drugging of America’s kids by psychiatrists being funded by Big Pharma to do so: The reporter (Kathy Fountain) running this panel starts off with a careful disclaimer that “plenty of parents say they are grateful now for the modern help […]