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Monday, February 03, 2014

"If I offend you: 1. I'm sorry..."

 "2. It won't happen again. 
3. 1 & 2 are lies 
4. You're a pussy."


"How do we know the good guys from the bad guys?"


Mmmmm... nuggets.  Ending the "pink goop" scare & showing you how nuggets are actually made.


Of course, in politics you can fuck more people than in a whorehouse.




Sometimes I really miss America.


 "Nadine remembered the first lecture she and her fellow residents heard in rehab: “You all have been born with a genetic disposition to be alcoholics, from which you can never fully recover,” announced the official-looking man at the front of the room backed by large, sun-filled windows that hurt Nadine’s eyes. Nadine raised her hand. “Yes?” The man was astounded anyone was questioning him. “Is there any test that shows we all have this gene?” Nadine asked sincerely. “Because I haven’t had a medical examination yet.”

The group leader no doubt marked Nadine down as a tough case at that moment. The idea of biological determination of alcoholism and addiction is a given in American culture, inside of treatment and out. And, yet, Nadine was 100 percent right. There was not a shred of evidence that she had any particular gene configuration. Neither of her parents, none of her grandparents, none of her cousins or her brother was an alcoholic. But, more importantly, there was no test for either her genes or her brain that would prove Nadine was one. And there never will be such a test...

The truth is, the vast majority of people quit addictions on their own. Every population study (that is, research with people not in treatment) tells us this. There is no ambiguity, no doubt, no scientific questioning of this truth. Only the neuroscientific, “chronic brain disease” crowd—represented by the new official medical subspecialty, the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)—strives to convince us of the opposite, even as a never-ending flood of data tells us otherwise...

People recover from addiction all the time. How do I know? Government research conducted by the NIDA and its sister agency (with which it is soon to be combined) the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) tells us that...

That’s not all. "About 75 percent of persons who recover from alcohol dependence do so without seeking any kind of help, including specialty alcohol (rehab) programs and Alcoholics Anonymous. Only 13 percent of people with alcohol dependence ever receive specialty alcohol treatment.” Wow. As the director of the research project at NIAAA, Mark Willenbring, notes, “These and other recent findings turn on its head much of what we thought we knew about alcoholism. As is so often true in medicine, researchers have studied the patients seen in hospitals and clinics most intensively. This can greatly skew understanding of a disorder,” especially in the case of alcoholism and addiction...

Why wouldn’t alcohol, cocaine, and narcotic addictions follow the same patterns as NESARC found to hold for alcoholics? After all, why should one substance addiction differ essentially from other substance addictions or, really, from all of human behavior? 

...By reinforcing the myth that addiction is uncontrollable and permanent, neuroscientific models make it harder to overcome the problem, just as the 12-step disease model has all along. Telling yourself that you are powerless over addiction is self-defeating; it limits your capacity to change and grow. Isn’t it better to start from the belief that you—or your spouse, or your child—can fully and finally break out of addictive habits by redirecting your life? It may not be quick and easy to accomplish, but it happens all the time."









Okay, some things used to be better - Pacific Southwest Airlines Stewardesses 1972.

 
 


 

Well, this is adorable.
"So, we would recommend when making pasta with jam sauce, you should wear goggles."

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