Are you still living in Fresno, Carol? Christ! Move to San Francisco, dear friend. Sleep on the beach. Join a commune. I would tell you to move to Memphis, but the heat here combined with the humidity makes this place uninhabitable, as you know -- as I recall you did a stint in Mississippi a while back -- well, nothing's changed. Nothing at all. At least when you and I go to hell, we'll feel at home. I pity those people of temperate zones . Glad to know you're still knocking about. Take care.
Mike Geary Memphis----- Original Message ----- From: <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:43 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Global Warming Hysteria
It's 111 degrees today. I'm too hot for hysteria. The whole world is too friggin hot, and depression is a perfectly adaptive, logical response to the situation. Always has been, come to think of it. We just have to sweat it out. Carol On 7/9/08, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:The article below was in a sidebar at Drudge. It only makes sense that some real cases of "global warming hysteria" would develop. Now if someone claims you are "hysterical about global warming," you can judge their remark against a psychiatric benchmark. Surefooted, we can confidently separate the real from the rhetorical hysterics. -EY full story at: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23991257-25717,00.html Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change Andrew Bolt PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion"- and they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon". "A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events." <snip> "The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies." ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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