MISTAKE?!
USA Today ran a story on Monday about golfer Tiger Woods’ alleged philandering with this stupid headline: “Mistake vs. serial cheating? More queries follow Tiger Woods scandal.” The article goes on to draw a distinction between people who cheat once and people who cheat multiple times. OK, now that I’m done throwing up, it’s obviously time for a crash refresher course on this topic, so here goes: Cheating is NEVER a “mistake”! A mistake is something one didn’t mean to do, i.e. an accident. Cheating is NEVER an accident. Cheating is ALWAYS an intentional betrayal for which there is NO excuse, whether it happens once or 100 times, period! Other than inducing vomiting, the USA Today piece does a good job of one thing — pointing out as I have many times that narcissism and a sense of entitlement are psychological hallmarks of cheaters.
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A Pennsylvania police officer was shot dead as he sat in his parked patrol car on Sunday night. The suspect is already in custody, and guess what? He’s a multi-convicted felon. Guess what else? He was on parole, released just days after serving the bare minimum sentence for his most-recent conviction, and wearing a tracking bracelet on his ankle at the time. And guess what else? The most recent conviction was for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If this guy had served the maximum instead of the minimum sentence for that conviction, he would’ve been in prison until 2014, and a police officer would still be alive today. WHEN are we going to scrap the “two, three, four…chances” example and start actually preventing and deterring crime with a “you do this and your life’s effectively over” example?! Apparently not until I’m in charge.
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Remember that loon in Connecticut whose pet chimpanzee mauled a house guest to within an inch of her life earlier this year, blinding and severely disfiguring and debilitating the victim? Connecticut prosecutors have announced that the owner will face no criminal charges stemming from that incident. At least she’s still being sued civilly, and I hope the victim wins! These nuts who keep dangerous animals as pets need to be held strictly accountable for any damage their “pets” do. The State of Connecticut is also being sued for allegedly failing to enforce laws that should’ve prevented the chimpanzee from being kept as a pet, and I hope the victim wins that one, too!
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Study this: The second new study on loneliness to be released in the past week found that people who lack social support are more vulnerable to cancer (both more likely to get it and more likely to have it be more aggressive).
And study this: Another “new” study found that antidepressants also have a calming effect on some people, making them less “neurotic” (i.e. less anxious). I’m not sure what’s “new” about this. Doctors have been prescribing antidepressants (rather than more-dangerous, more-addictive benzodiazepines like Xanax and Ativan) to people with mild anxiety symptoms for years.
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