Subject: Personality Disorders

• Daily Briefs: John McCain is very reluctant to talk about that thing he constantly talks about.

  September 5, 2008

• Best Crushworthy Local Celebrity (Female)

  October 19, 2000

• Girl, Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir, about her stay in a psychiatric hospital in the late '60s

  January 13, 2000

• Daily Briefs: Continuous Appeal to Authority Thursday

  In accordance with the wishes of the National Pork Board, I've stopped saying "swine flu." I have a soft spot for vested corporate interests and trade groups and the factory-produced meat industry in particular, and I love it when those organizations literally tell me what terminology is and is not supposed to be coming out of my mouth. After the jump, some stuff about flu preparedness and Pres. Barack Obama's press conference, which is ALL VERY INTERESTING, as officially certified by this not

  April 30, 2009

• Bond, Brownback call on Obama to push for better health care for troops

  Kit Bond​Sam Brownback​Props to U.S. Sens. Kit Bond and Sam Brownback for pushing President Obama to make sure U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan get the mental health care they need. PrimeBuzz reports that Bond and Brownback are among a group of senators urging Obama to "fight against the military's misuse of personality disorder discharges," which they all teamed up on in 2007. PrimeBuzz notes that "the military views personality disorders as a pre-existing condition, [but]

  October 20, 2009