There is a wonderful market of Chinese wholesale weirdness online. Here’s some of my favorites.
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Swimming in fountain across from Union Station; Washington, D.C.; by Marion Post Wolcott 1938
Whenever I pass some “black hebrews” on Nicollet Mall, I keep thinking of the MaNishtana post:
Please direct me to where it says “Behold, and thou shalt dress in a manner as if thou art the bastard offspring of a threesome between the Power Rangers, the Village People, and Lawrence of Arabia.”
An award-winning duck of some sort at the MN State Fair.
- Adults who were mildly depressed as teenagers are more likely to have major depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. However, researchers could not say if mild depression contributed to the development of major depression, or if the mild depression as a teen was an early phase of major depressive disorder.
- They have the thinnest skin, the shortest fuses and take the hardest knocks.
- “Despite all this help, there are days when I can’t get out of bed because I’m in a deep depression or didn’t sleep at all the night before. Sometimes I’m unable to do anything other than get my kids fed.”
- “I recognize that I’m hallucinating. I know this isn’t real, but maybe there’s some lessons I can gain.”
"Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall," by Frank Hurley, circa 1911-1914
- Depression’s evolutionary roots: an adaptation, not a malfunction.
- The 2008 American College Health Association Survey found that 30% of college students said they had suffered from depression in the last 12 months
- In Florida, the State argues that gay people have higher rates of “domestic violence, psychiatric disorders and breakups” (none of which is true), and thus should not have the right to adopt a child.
- Ted Kennedy was instrumental to the passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which he called “a major breakthrough for those with mental health needs.”
- Connection found between heart disease in women with no previous warning signs (such as high blood pressure) and hopelessness:
“What we found is, those women who reported feeling hopeless about the future or their personal goals had more thickening in the neck arteries — more atherosclerosis — which is a predictor of stroke and subsequent heart attack,” Everson-Rose said in a telephone interview.
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