The psychiatrists are at it again, defining mental "disorders." “This is not cardiology or nephrology, where the basic diseases are well known,” said Edward Shorter, a leading historian of psychiatry whose latest book, …
Last semester, as I drove my car to and from work every day, nearly every time, I listened to the album "Poses," by Rufus Wainwright. The ride is short, usually the length of one song. Sometimes I played the satellite …
You remember Hirshman's "maybe goddesses have some hypnotic effect on policy wonks," which I flagged here without comment (because I'd already had my say about the WaPo op-ed on the blog and on Bloggingheads.T…
Why did they leave religion out of "Walk the Line"? "That dimension of Cash's life, which was present all the way through, was absent," said theRev. C. Clifton Black, a professor at Princeton Theological S…
By chance, two of my favorite bloggers are talking about addiction today. Hog on Ice is fed up with his sister's I'm-an-addict antics. And RLC, left on his own to plunge into addictive behavior, analyzes why he doesn'…
1. Those Greeks who were suing to vindicate Alexander's sexual reputation are calling it off until they get a chance to see the film. Critics caution against it. 2. Angelina Jolie reflects on her performance as Alexander&#…
The first report looks good for the federal government on this, as Justice Souter seems dubious about the plaintiffs' argument: Backers of California's law seem to think "everybody is going to get it from a friend o…
The NYT is running an article about people who blog obsessively, so I'm going to blog it obsessively. First, there's an anecdote about a woman who went on a vacation with her husband, and he got up and went in the bathro…