ADHD, ODD, & Other Assorted Bull****!

Last week, there was word in the news that there has been a marked rise the number of children diagnoses with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ("ADHD On Rise Among Minority, High-Income Families").  The implication is that this rise in diagnoses of this accepted disorder reflects the recognition that many challenging behaviors exhibited by children nowadays can be explained away. But does clinical intervention explain away many negative...

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Beyond The Political Spectrum Now On Tumblr

I am proud to announce that Beyond The Political Spectrum is now on Tumblr.  The reason for this expansion is because the picture/video-based social networking sight provides the advantage conveying political and social commentary (in brief) using visual imagery, and more up-to-date news of relevant happenings affecting America and the world (click here for the link: Beyond The Political Spectrum Tumblr). In providing this extra source of news...

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Guns…Let’s Use Some Common Sense!

A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece ("Gun Control...No! Responsible Gun Control...Yes?") about the need for the rational regulation of guns; not one based on leftist fear-mongering or right-wing “any-gun-should-be-available-no-rules” insanity! My suggestion was that access to guns by qualified citizens (excluding non-felons, ex-felons, and crazy people) should be based where a citizen lives, and the proportion of threat to their environments....

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"Whatever Happened To Saturday Morning Cartoons?"

Warning: This is not one of my regular "what's wrong with society" rants. If you're looking for something politically-stimulating, you might want to wait until my next posting! As I was performing my usual Saturday morning deep clean of my place, I had my television on and tuned to one of the weekend network news programs. It was an attempt to multitask, using my peripheral hearing (if such a thing exist) to keep abreast of whatever events the...

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Opinion: Insurance Companies – No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (…or, “You Gotta be ****ing Kidding...”

One of the reasons that I began writing is because as an information and news junkie, I would often come across items on the newswire that seemed to garner very little coverage. What’s more, I simply cannot stand the way people tend to view news items through the prisms of their ideological beliefs. In objectively learning about what goes on around us, I find the old adage to be very true; to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Take insurance companies...

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