Posted in Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Master of the Painfully Obvious, People in the news, STFU, Science, celebrities, crime, health, insanetertainment, media, regulation, unusual behaviors, tagged Britney, Britney Spears, Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil Show, HIPAA, hospital, license, media, Phil McGraw, pop psychology, psychiatry, psychology on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Not at all surprisingly, a Psychologist has filed a formal complaint with the California Board of Psychology against Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw, as a result of his bizarre unauthorized and unwanted visit to pop star Britney Spears while she was hospitalized in the Cedars-Sinai psychiatric unit. I previously discussed that situation in more detail [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Shine on you crazy diamond, humor, insanetertainment, music, unusual behaviors, tagged Alyce Wojciechowski, American Idol, auditions, bad singer, Eddie Veder, James Lewis, Milo Turk, Paul Martuano, Pearl Jam, Season 7, Season Seven, sing on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s that time of year again. That’s right, American Idol started last night.
Now, I’ll admit right off the bat that what I really like about American Idol is the auditions, where we all get to see some very strange characters who for some strange reason think they can sing. Once the auditions are over, [...]
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Posted in Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Family, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), People in the news, Science, children, health, unusual behaviors, tagged ADD, bipolar, Celexa, Concerta, depression, FDA, Geodon, health, Lori Drew, Megan Meier, mental illness, Myspace suicide, New Yorker, schizophrenia, suicide on January 16, 2008 | 14 Comments »
The New Yorker has published an excellent article on the death of Megan Meier, written by Lauren Collins. Megan Meier is, of course, the so-called “MySpace Suicide”, a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after an online encounter with someone she thought was a 16-year-old boy, Josh Evans. Josh Evans was in reality was [...]
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Posted in animals, health, pets, tagged abandoned, animal, beagle, cat, cocker spaniel, dog, food, no-kill shelter, rottweiler on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As some of you already know, I’m an animal lover. Here at home right now I have three dogs and a cat. All of my animals are rescued animals.
The beagle mix is too old and too sick to be adopted, but I have time to take care of her health needs. Someone had [...]
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Posted in Congress, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Science, animals, health, tagged animal, approval, clone, cloning, FDA, food on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
According to CNN, the FDA has approved ingestion of meat and milk from cloned animals as food. They say there is no difference between cloned animals and non-cloned animals, and furthermore say that they cannot even require that cloned meat be marked as such (though sellers are free to advertise that their product [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Finances, Law, People in the news, celebrities, crime, insanetertainment, prisons, tagged bail, bond, court, crime, hearing, Las Vegas, Nevada, OJ, OJ Simpson, revocation on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
OJ Simpson’s bail revocation hearing was broadcast live on Court TV today.
The judge did not order him held in jail until his trial in April. I suspect the reason she didn’t do that is that the bail bondsman who handled his bond the last time is questionable at best, and he was the witness [...]
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