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Friday, June 20, 2008
How Shy Became Sick | Chicago Reader »
On how misanthropy and shyness became official disorders, with drugs to cure them:
‘Lane tells me the process, which was supposed to establish psychiatry as a solid science, was itself “highly unscientific.” The task force spun out one new disorder after another, sometimes “knocking out the list of symptoms in a matter of minutes… . Almost overnight, shyness and many other routine moods and ailments became bona fide disorders.” ‘
Interesting.
Via
“The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.”
Via Buzzmachine on the AP News fiasco
If you’re interested at all in the newspaper industry, you should read these posts by Jeff Jarvis.
- A proposal to the Associated Press: A link ethic
- AP, hole, dig
- Hey, Saul
- The link economy v. the content economy
- Whither the AP
Today’s standdown doesn’t reduce the impact of his points at all.
“For one thing, the study did not include stay-at-home parents, who have the worst bosses of all: small children… . If your boss ever throws fistfuls of mac-and-cheese across the room, pitches an unholy fit because you chose the Tigger socks instead of the Buzz Lightyear socks, then demands that you empty his underpants, well, you have a bad boss.”
James Lileks on bad bosses and calling in sick. Read the whole thing.
Noble Pig: Spears of Love to Heal My Closet of Broken Dreams
This looks yummy. Might have to pick up some asparagus at the Farmers’ Market tomorrow.
