Month: November 2002
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Listserv: Pythagoras, not Prozac!
Pythagoras, not Prozac! 11/6/2002 1:15:12 AM I have gotten a lot of flack from people who say that I don’t understand the validity of depression as a serious physiological illness for which drugs must be taken, and that I don’t have the expertise to say why anyone is suffering from it. This is not…
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Damn Voting!
So I tried to go vote yesterday and today but the whole world seems to be determined not to let me. First, I found out that early voting ends four days before the elections, so a trip in the rain to the MSC was wasted. Today, I went to the MSC to have the officials…
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LTE: "Recapturing the Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living", by Linda S. Lichter
Ms. Lichter makes several good points in her nostalgic ode to Victorian morality as she shreds the “chaotic muddle” which goes for morality these days. However, before jumping on the “traditional family values” bandwagon, it is worthwhile to examine the particular differences between Victorian morality and what passes for morality today. Victorian ideals stressed a…