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Perhaps the government should declare a War On Crises.

> The People's * is a prefix used by totalitarian governments. Indeed. And so are words like "homeland". The last ~2 decades have seen a widespread change in ideas about the relati…

Thanks for the reply. > Finally, the education for licensed therapist varies WILDLY , and there are a lot of really bad ones. I hear you there. I had some iffy experiences early on…

Any chance you could answer some questions? I'll get to them after a couple of (relevant) anecdotes. I was diagnosed with depression by a psychologist. I got a referral to a psychi…

This article is absurd. > No one writes articles telling men how they’re damaging their career prospects by using the wrong words. Be real. There are whole books devoted to this to…

> "That person [in the majority group] cannot speak for the underrepresented group," Quinton said. "They are not part of that group. [But] they can observe unfair practices and unc…

> A midlife crisis is simply when all your 'someday' bills are due. I'm sure that's an important component of it. But it is not the whole story. For example, incidence of clinical …

I believe studies have generally shown married men, on the whole, to be happier than unmarried men. I'm not sure about women, nor about how children affect things. Regardless, you …

> Of all the people at a multiethnic women’s college who could hold the school’s “diversity” seat, the least fitting one was a white man. I don't know about the "white" part, but p…

Lately we've seen a number of well written, compelling articles about reforming the U.S. criminal justice system. There was one not long ago about a woman who moved to a poor inner…

Perhaps we should interpret this article in this way: The government wants to be able to track everyone , all the time. And here's a justification that will let this idea slip past…

So now Al Jazeera is kowtowing to the almighty surveillance state, too? This is depressing.

Or rather: Uh, there is a use for semicolons; just use semicolons as they were intended. I don't think the medium nor the age matters; and if you don't know how to use them, then e…

This is a worthwhile article, and it makes some good points. But I must say that, as usual in her writing, Dziura rubs me the wrong way with her assumptions--implicit, but obvious-…

Well, but it was a friend who was attacked; not her. We probably would not think it was inconsistent for a man whose female friend was attacked at a conference to remark that he fe…

Wow, this hits awfully close to home. A few quick thoughts: - Calling 911 was the right thing to do. Never doubt it. - Loving a suicidal person might just be the most frustrating t…

I've quoted your comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1fz6ba/creator_of_... I can remove this if it is a problem.