SageAgainstTheMachine

What does the man's religion have anything to do with this? Christians, Jewish people, Hindus...men of those faiths have killed their wives too.

Nope, I have many problems and personal issues of my own. I'm just man enough to take personal responsibility for them.

Putting words in my mouth again. I never said depression wasn't a real disease. And you are dead wrong about support not being important. One of the primary causes behind depression is the sense of isolation that sadness causes. People with a strong support system of family and friends are less likely to slip into depression and that's a verifiable fact. Why would talking to a psychiatrist help but talking to your brother not help? As for most mental diseases, I can only assume they are all "real" but I think that they are overdiagnosed. Some people have chronic fatigue syndrome, but other people diagnosed with it are lazy. Some kids have ADHD, but the majority that are prescribed Ritalin are just poorly behaved. Some people probably have seasonal affective disorder, but the majority of others just like to mope about the winter. As for anorexia and alcoholism, they are behavioral. Nobody becomes an alcoholic by drinking a couple of beers every weekend. They become alcoholics from drinking heavily. People make the mistake of drinking too much and some of them become addicted. The cure is to put down the f*cking bottle and stop drinking. The cure to anorexia is to pick up a fork and eat something. People who are unwilling to change their lifestyles in order to prevent themselves from dying do not have my sympathy. It's the same with obesity. Yes, some people have legitimate metabolism probles, but the majority of obese people just eat far too much and never leave their living room couch. And yet, morbidly obese people now qualify as having a "disability". It seems that in America, we're all about being victims. "I can't stop drinking, I have alcoholism". "It isn't my son's fault that he acts up in class, he has ADHD."

Any good psychologist or psychiatrist will tell you that non-medical treatments for depression can be just as, if not more, valuable than medical treatments. Therapy, counselling, support from family and friends, thinking positive (and yes, that includes smiling) all do wonders. Yes, pills are necessary a lot of the time, but saying that you "disagree 100%" that smiling more can help is just foolish. And would you please hold off on the Straw Man logic, it isn't fooling anybody. You turned "I don't believe anorexia and alcoholism are diseases" into "I only believe in diseases that you can physically see". Maybe I just have a different interpretation of the word disease than you.

Do you disagree that it helps? I'm no doctor, but I suspect a positive outlook is capable of doing things that pills can't.

Hilarious This one's even better IMO... http://www.theonion.com/content/video/pre_...coin_toss_makes

Not the hugest Danny McBride fan (thought he was intolerable in pineapple express), but this seems like a funny show, and it's about baseball which just ups the ante.

Aw man, Marshaw Lynch got arrested too? Why can't the Lynch family stay out of trouble?

Yippie Kay Yay Mr. Falcon.

My family has a pretty significant history of alcoholism, so I'm not separated from this issue. Having said that, I'm sorry, if the cure to your disease is eating a sandwich or not drinking beer, I don't consider it a disease. There is a difference between a disease and an addiction. An addiction can be solved with will power, no matter how hard it may be. Withdrawal is a horrible thing, but people DO quit their addictions cold turkey.

You know who ran a slow 40? Jerry Rice. How'd he turn out?

Ok, I don't want to sound insensitive, but there are millions of people out there in the world who barely have the resources to feed themselves every couple of days, and many of those people (including children) starve to death. And I'm supposed to feel bad for privileged girls from the suburbs who REFUSE to eat because of body image problems? Yeah, advertisements have created unhealthy ideals and everything but if these girls are dumb enough to blindly follow those ideals like lemmings, I don't see why they are deserving of pity. There's such a thing as free will.

I know, but just consider it an example of metonymy. "The Oval Office" is metonymous for "The Presidency".

I think they say 42 presidents because they don't count Grover Cleveland twice.

Well answer me this; If 3,000 people die in a terrorist attack a few months from now and then there isn't another attack for 7 years under Obama, will you applaud him for the 7 years or condemn him for being "soft on terrorism" and allowing the first attack? Why do you let Bush off with a free pass? What if the attack had occured on 9/11 of the year 2000? You'd probably be critical of Clinton because he's a Democrat. The point of my post was that you can't just draw a line of causation between our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the fact that 7 years have passed without an attack on US soil. It's a logical fallacy.

I suspect this was nothing but a very very good acting job by Joaquin (and I'd expect nothing less).

Yes, but unfortunately we live an a society where "Protecting our children" has become synonymous with "Lying to our children in order to avoid difficult, yet completely innocent, conversations".

You make it sound like there were terrorist attacks happening on a monthly basis and then they just stopped once we invaded. Exactly how many terrorist attacks on US soil do you think there were under Clinton, HW Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, etc.? Also, don't be so paranoid.

He said he served 4 years, not 25.

You think you're tough? You never would have made it in Sing Sing. When I was doing time, I met a guy who only slowed down to 25 MPH in a school zone and another dude who taped old baseball games and showed them to his friends without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. Honestly I would have been absolute toast in that hell-hole, but I had a reputation as a tough guy because I was in for eating loose grapes at the supermarket.

Well the easiest situation would be a child that was a girl until the age of 12, and then turned into a boy when it was a teenager and into the college years. Then it turned into a woman again and had a couple of grandchildren for you, then turned back into a man at the age of 30 and watched football with you until you died. On second thought, that'd be pretty messed up. But still very convenient.

I'm still a big Lynch fan. Frankly, a player's off-the-field actions don't concern me as long as they don't hurt anybody. That's why the hit and run upset me a lot more than this gun charge does.

Wow, Freudian slip on my part maybe? I've got some thinking to do...

I'm not very in touch with the racing world, so excuse me if I sound ignorant, but why is Gordon such a polarizing figure? Seems like a nice enough guy to me.

Wow this is just disturbing. That kid does not look even remotely 13. So messed up.