BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

“"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” - Alice in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll Barry, what are we gonna do about you? I am not a doctor but there's smatterings of what I know to be sociopathy (formerly known as moral insanity), destructive narcissism and even borderline personality disorder here. Your reality & history, Senator Obama -- is too relative. Mine? Is solid and something everyone can check and see for themselves. Yours shifts with your tie color. A certain amount of narcissism is considered healthy, but having had a narcissistic parent I can say from experience they are pathological, malignant people who destroy everything and everyone around them for the sake of not just their egos - but protecting THEIR CHANGEABLE REALITY. If you catch a narcissist in a lie, they wi...

Speaks for itself (ugh...) Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election by Lea Lane The Obama team is suddenly making a huge effort to gain women's votes, but many die-hard Hillary supporters -- dozens of my acquaintances -- remain bruised and confused. The fact that Palin is on the ticket when HRC wasn't even vetted may turn out to have been the major gaffe of Axelrod and Company, and the tipping point of this tight election. If you've been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it's time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you've come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don't mean it. This is politics.) Here's what you can do: Eat crow. To get started, memorize this phrase, take a deep breath and say: "Now that I see how unqualified Sarah Palin is, I realize how I misjudged Hillary Clinton. Even Biden...

This excellent post from Ani over at NoQuarter ust about sums up what I have been feeling & thinking for the last few months -- except that she is more more eloquent than I ever could be. She elucidates an emotion I have felt a few times in my life -- and I am feeling it now every time I hear or see Barack Obama. RAGE These past eight years, every time I saw George Bush on television or heard one of his idiotic sound bytes, I felt the bile rise in my throat. What horrid nonsense is this snake oil salesman spewing now? What other inanity can spring forth to pretend the economy is fine or that we can say “Mission Accomplished” about Iraq? And if he says the word ‘nuke-u-lar’ one more time, I will scream!! At the start of 2008, I felt buoyed by a sense of hope. I took out the “Bush” countdown calendar someone had given my husband and actually started leafing through it. This was challenging in itself, because, unlike some stand-ups who use Bush-isms to provide endless fodder for the...