BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

by Kathy Krajco It was about this time of year when a narcissist went away to college as a freshman at the colossal University of Wisconsin in Madison. The next thing her family knew, she was a different person. She had always been your good, clean-cut, all-American kid in high school. Got good grades. Went to Mass with her parents every Sunday. Was a cheerleader. Took part in athletics. Never touched drugs. Had a steady boyfriend who was himself a clean-cut all-American kid. But in Madison, with no parents around to see what she did, she went wild. You name it – drugs, sex, riots – she was into it. Didn’t go to class. Partied all the time. Hopped into bed with anyone. As for Sunday Mass – she never went once. When her sister came to visit and expected to go, she announced that she didn’t believe in it. She didn’t offer any explanation or relate her thoughts and reasoning on this. She just bit off the matter glibly by saying that she didn’t believe in it, period. All within less than s...

By Gene Messick On 11 December I wrote an Article for OEN about this: Opportunities to deal with sociopaths in American politics Since then, I've been collecting examples to prove my point. Just recently I discovered one of the most egregious examples to date, described in a recent Mother Jones blog by Jonathan Stine in which he wrote this: " Alberto Gonzales: Pathetic? Deluded? Crazy? Short fiction writer Alberto Gonzales is confused, asking in a recent interview, " What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" If Gonzales is trying this unctuous nonsense in an attempt at image- rehabilitation, he needs to hire a professional PR company. If he's asking this question in earnest, he is demonstrably insane. As Think Progress points out, the answer to Gonzales' question includes: corrupting the DOJ by insiting on ideological purity tests in hiring; firing US Attorneys that refused to toe the Bush Ad...

O.K. -- I am not a "single mom" though I often have to act like one. My kids have a father and he is very good about taking care of our living expenses. We are no longer together and have not been for 9 years now. I NEVER, no matter how I may personally feel, have tried to separate my children from their father. I always invite him to parent teacher meetings, open school nights, doctor/ dentist or orthodontist visits. I always let him know what my children need and encourage him to be in on the decisions. However, I take care of my children like a single mother. My children are my full time job and life time responsibility. I am medically disabled and unable to work but I can be a mother, albeit not the kind of mother I'd like to be. But they are my job. My children would never, ever say they don't have a father. Or even imply it. I wouldn't allow that. I wonder how Barky's mother and step-father(s) feel about his words?? I'd be furious. The ...