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Hard to believe there was a time when Catholic priests fought for progress instead of standing in its way.

Not just McDonald’s, it’s been used by numerous organizations to downplay lawsuits they feel will hurt them with consumers. Tort reform is also trotted out by politicians who want to look as though they’re protecting people from “government overreach” because they know people don’t know what torts are and they can scare them into believing they’re going to be sued if they don’t get outside to shovel their walk early enough after a snow.

“It’s been very cathartic making my mental health troubles everyone else’s problem” says man who can afford to pay an entire team to listen to his unhinged rants if he wants.

Worryingly we may all be both types. The problem is that we’re typically the first when the new information aligns with the world as we think we understand it, and the second when it conflicts. Information that calls into question our understanding of the world around us makes us feel threatened and through that threat activates our fight or flight instincts. Since we can’t run from information we’ve already heard the only choice is to fight back against it either publicly or in our own minds.

We certainly need to end marketing directly to either doctors or patients, but I would like to note to anyone out there struggling that medication can help. Work to develop a relationship with a doctor who works with you and be specific and insistent about what your goals are, but when they suggest medication to help you through the difficult parts of mental illness don't discount it offhand. Well meaning comments and comics like this kept me away from psychiatrists for years, and that delay cost me a scholarship, a degree, a marriage, and left me with five years of back-breaking labor at a dead-end job. There's no shame in getting help and medication can play a pivotal role in that.

I would imagine that Columbia’s disciplinary process creates records that are maintained for a number of years. If they weren’t created, or have since been destroyed that would be evidence towards improper procedures. Certainly any destruction now would be highly illegal and might result in a presumption against the university. As to the tenant laws I assume the order that the students received should be proof enough unless New York tenant laws have a carve out for universities.

a MAHA Action spokesperson, said in an email that the letter was “shared and circulated organically in a grassroots manner

Read: someone posted it on their social with the caption “important, please share with any doctors you know.”

Bare in mind that the Constitution is just a piece of paper. It only has power when the government and the will of the people give it power.

There’s a scene from The West Wing that really impressed upon me the great challenge of holding even the seemingly most stable democracies together. Toby Ziegler was working with representatives of a newly forming government and a constitutional scholar played by Christopher Lloyd to craft a constitution. Toby takes issue with the amount of power they are considering vesting in their executive branch, preferring instead a parliamentary system. Christopher Lloyd’s character responds to him with almost this exact point, telling him that their work just then was to instill a democratic spirit in those leaders and through them the broader populace of their country.

You can stretch right up and touch the sky!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilly_Willy?wprov=sfti1

That is a terrible title and sloppy reporting. They have not included a constitution page in the New website. With this administration that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

It would be easy to look at that headline and decry clueless politicians, but a more honest title might read: “Politicians Use Momentum of the Moment to Push for Legislation to Address a Major, Related Issue of Particular Importance to the Region.”