November 27, 2015 Psychiatry's Lesson for Universal Health Care As President Obama tries to remake the American health care system, the gutting of psychiatry by insurance company policies and other administrative forces is a good lesson in what to avoid.
November 27, 2015 Crimes of Passion The murders of Arturo Gatti, possibly by his 23-year-old ex-stripper wife, and of Steve McNair by his 20-year-old lover, may reflect yet another sign that more Americans than we know -especially younger Americans - are losing their sense of self and, with it, their psychological and moral bearings.
November 27, 2015 Michael Jackson's Second Death Michael Jackson's sudden death by cardiac arrest is less shocking than the slow, but steady demise of his soul, which turned him into a music machine fueled by addictions to drugs, money, possessions, fame and plastic surgery. As my friend and fellow journalist Josh Resnek has remarked, Jackson's body died at 50; the rest of him died much younger.
November 27, 2015 Jon & Kate's 8 Need Legal Guardians Jon and Kate Gosselin are splitting up - for real, as in, getting divorced.
November 27, 2015 The Truth About the Pregnant Blogger's Lies For months, Becca Beushausen, a 26-year-old woman from Mokena, Ill., was known on her blog only as "B" or "April's Mom." She had become the darling of those who defend the unborn's right to life by blogging about her commitment to give birth to a child with a rare disorder called holoprosencephaly, a condition that would cause her baby girl to be born with malformations of her brain and face that would ultimately prove fatal.
November 27, 2015 David Carradine: Society's Obsession With Celebrity Death David Carradine's naked body was found hanging in a Bangkok, Thailand hotel room last Thursday morning, setting in motion a debate about whether the star of the feature film "Kill Bill" and the long-running television series "Kung Fu" (1972-1975) committed suicide, accidently died while attempting to stimulate himself through autoerotic asphyxia or was murdered.
November 27, 2015 TheTrouble With Jon & Kate Millions of Americans watch the hit reality TV series "Jon & Kate Plus 8"on TLC.
November 27, 2015 Assisted Suicide Legal in Washington On May 21, 2009, Linda Fleming, a woman with terminal pancreatic cancer, took a fatal overdose of medications prescribed by her physician to end her life. She thus became the first person to commit suicide under the "Death with Dignity" law that passed the state legislature November 4, 2008 and took effect during March.
November 27, 2015 Twittering Your Life Away Twitter, for anyone left on the planet who doesn't know, is a free social network on which users update their "followers" about where they are, what they're doing or what they think - up to the minute. Essentially, it is a way to shotgun micro-blogs about your life (called tweets) to an audience of email pals you gather. Ashton Kutcher has over 1,000,000 people following his posts. I think my babysitter has about 100.
