Psychiatrists as clerks - unprofessional ?

Conversation overheard on the bus this morning :

               Recovering addict : " The shrink asked me about

    my  insurance plan ".

              addict : " Medicaid or medicare ".

              psychiatrist : " Then you're out of here tomorrow ! "

               addict : " Guess I'll buy another guitar. I a musician

                        you know. "

              I would like to hear him play for the  benefit of the

    shrink the Elvis Presley song: "  You ain't nothing but a hound dog ! "

                My own brother had a stress related nervous breakdown.

      He had an excellent health plan as long as he was healthy.

                His  kind shrink informed him after he lost his

    medical coverage : "  Next stop the IMH. You won't like it

    there at all. And you owe me $80 for the lithium test. "

                My brother is advised to avoid STRESS ! But

    the SYSTEM is clearly not helping him .

Asteroid to end world's misery ?

The astronomers are not  all spaced out when they

    warn us: " The asteroid is coming ! "

             The lucky ones will die with their stock market wealth

    still going up , up , UP ! To astronomical heights !

          A sensitive, objective historian must admit that the

    general misery index of the world has risen as fast as the

    bull market in the last decade.

               At least the asteroid will put billions out of their

    existential misery. If only God were a compassionate conservative,

    there might still be hope .

                 But there is a delirious -DIVINE - joy in

    destruction for the hell of it .

                On the brink of doom , my last wish is that

    Ralph Nader  get at least 5 per-cent of the vote ! 

Lieberman editorial OK , cartoon NO !

I have already observed that Joseph Lieberman is

    a very Jewish Jew. And to be sure, ANY pious soul can be corrupted

    by adulation ( " Lieberman's double run " ) .

          But the cartoon to the right is a bit of nasty silliness,

    surprising in the Projo.

              In no way is Senator Lieberman a threat to the separation

    of Church and State in America.

              I was 90% sure  that I would vote for Nader. Right

    now it is 50/50 . I might vote for Gore & The Rabbi .

               For the record , I find little evidence of a plutocratic

    conspiracy in Projo editorials.  Rich and Poor can both possess

    COMMON sense !

MIT settlement outrageous

I read in the Projo today this odd news item : An MIT

    student drinks himself to death and now MIT will pay

    Scott Krueger's parents $4.75 million.

         Who says kids are just a liability. The insanity of

    the courts! In the world of the common people a drunken son

    would only bring shame to his parents.

        Anyway , wouldn't it make more sense for the Kruegers -

    who should have settled for grief counseling - to use

    THEIR $4.75 million for a  scholarship fund  in Scott's

    memory ?

             How would a working class did be consoled for

    the drunken death of a foolish son ? ( dad )

              With a bottle of beer, no doubt ( Krueger light ? ) .