In the last half century the economy of the United States of America has gone from strong and growing to shrinking and weakening, and that was with a lot of people trying very hard to improve the economy, or saying they were. It probably would have been possible to do more damage to the economy, but it would have required a strong dictator and a very, very complacent populace, and we have only had a bunch of knuckleheads trying to run the country and a populace that believed that the politicians ...
Updated 06-15-2013 at 04:26 PM by PeterL
It is probably obvious to everyone that mental health is a lot on my mind. I just read a piece in the guardian about men's mental health. I am a big fan of Stephen Fry and I have seen and read about how open he is when it comes to this issue. This shouldn't be a taboo subject, it should be OK to talk about mental illnesses just like any other form of illness. This particular article was about letting children be children and not let girls be emotional and boys tough. I wonder about this a lot as ...