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Chris Lischewski, Where Was the Honor Among All You Thieves?

Previously I’d written an article about Bumbling Bee Chris Lischewski, who not got sacked by Bumble Bee but also got reamed by a jury of his “peers.” Lischewski will soon be in the jury’s peer group, because he will likely go from millionaire to pauper and lose all his money in personal bankruptcy. Continue reading Chris Lischewski, Where Was the Honor Among All You Thieves?

DARLINGTON, A New Novel by Tripsy South: “Killing Eve invades Old Florida”

DARLINGTON by Tripsy South — Darlington: “Killing Eve invades Old Florida.” A hot new thriller by Tripsy South.

My latest novel DARLINGTON is very much “Killing Eve invades Old Florida,” and is set in Tampa Bay and Key West.

Tommy Darlington is one hot mess: a former US Army Airborne Ranger who walks through life as a closet anxiety-depressive. He’s also the largest distributor of pimp body parts in the good State of Florida, but only one man knows his secret.

Only THE DEAD Are Experts On the Subject of Suicide

CNN posted an article about how suicide rates have risen by 33% in nearly twenty years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also published similar results. “For some health experts, the rise in suicide comes as no surprise.”

My gawd. When something or some event does not surprise you, then you must have had some prior knowledge of it; in this case, the increase in suicides. Worse, you did nothing about it. Continue reading Only THE DEAD Are Experts On the Subject of Suicide

If Your Brain Were Made of Yarn

Dr. Karen E. Norberg is a quirky psychiatrist who created an anatomically correct model of the human brain. Continue reading If Your Brain Were Made of Yarn

Excerpt from SUICIDE TANGO: Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine

Dear Reader,

Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine was presented to me by one of my first suicide patients as a warm thank-you for listening so intently. TW later recovered and became a successful psychiatrist who worked with suicidal girls and women. Over the years, she compiled these details about psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental-health professionals who “treated” suicidal patients.

Excerpt from Suicide Tango: Why Do You Want To Kill Yourself?

The following is the introduction to Chapter One by Dr. Jon Moore:

Being a textbook practitioner of the anal arts—please read: compulsively obsessive and obsessively compulsive—I often puzzle over the impossibly complex neural processes that lead a human being even to consider taking her own life. After all, they and their parents, for most people, have already invested at least fifteen years in that life, although for the average suicide—excuse me, suicidal person—this may not have been a particularly pleasant experience.

25 Biggest Lies and Dumbest Things Grown-ups Say To Children

Adults and grown-ups lie to children all the time and, most of the time, it well-intentioned. These recipients of this crap then pass on the same old dumb (if not outright stupid) things to their kids and anyone who will listen.

Villanelle: Coolest Psychobitch in the Stream

Over the past 75 or so years, movie and tv psychos have been so boringly Hollywood-stereotypical, cartoonish even: Raven (This Gun for Hire) Don Logan (Sexy Beast), Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction), Norman Bates (Psycho), among others. The writers of these clumsy characters were clueless about what makes a true psycho, let alone one who murders for cash.

Why Are We So Obsessed With Goals?

“Life coaches” kill me.

Thank goodness I always rise from the dead and live to write and edit another day.

The Recursive Inpissation of Mother Nature’s Treasures

When we discover one of Mother Nature’s beloved treasures, our hypergenetic mix conjures up clever ways to morph it from a commodity to a rare and precious element.

Some call that practicing alchemy without a license.