Some of you may have followed the link to Brian Buck’s website over the time I had him listed on the blogroll, and read about his struggle with cancer. I saw today over at Dave Slusher’s that Brian has lost his long battle with cancer. Now that the battle is over, I hope he has the peace he deserves. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family at this time.
Pin Apparently, yes they could. The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study supporting the existence of ESP that was widely criticized. The journal Science pulled a political…
I had an email conversation the other day with another survivor and they said something that I’ve seen far too many times, in one shape or other. Namely “I am a creation of what everyone wants me to be”. Most children in abusive situations become what they need to be in order to avoid the abuse….
Pin The story of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban finding former player Delonte West, and picking him up at a gas station in order to arrange for him to go to rehab, is a great story. I have nothing but respect for Cuban for going out of this way to help a former player, and I…
Yeah ok so some people are obviously unhappy about the election results, but hey, at least we can all just be happy that the whole freakin’ think is over! The complete inundation of our senses with all things election related has come to an end and now we can all go back to simply living…
One of the survivor sites I try and follow when I have the time is Disproportionately Disillusioned. Yesterday, she official gave notice that she will not be updating that site, but will be merging the anonoymous site with her other, public site. As she says: This will be my final post on Disproportionately Disillusioned. In…
Pin We like to think that only someone unstable would commit these type of crimes. So was the entire city of Rome mentally ill, or was something else going on? It’s my belief that something else was going on, and that was the ability to see those that are different than us as somehow less than human.
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How sad.
I don’t know what else to say – words fail me at the moment.
Lessons In Life
Sleep eludes me tonight. I lay in bed for the past hour, turning this way and that way, breathing deep as I have been prone to do since this ordeal began – I cannot seem to catch my breath tonight….