Comments on: We’re mad. We’re glad. Get used to it! http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:20:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jen http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1701 Jen Mon, 12 May 2008 21:03:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/#comment-1701 When you have a chance, last week's "Uncommon Knowledge" interview with Tom Wolfe is definitely deserving of your time: http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/ When you have a chance, last week’s “Uncommon Knowledge” interview with Tom Wolfe is definitely deserving of your time:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/

]]> By: Fred Beloit http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1692 Fred Beloit Mon, 12 May 2008 12:34:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/#comment-1692 " The meek, the white, the gentle, Me handle touch and spare not But those that crosse Tom Rynosseros[Rhinoceros]> Do what the panther dare not. With a host of furious fancies Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander. By a knight of ghostes and shadowes I summon'd am to tourney Ten leagues beyond the wild world's end. Methinks it is no journey." (From the Wiki version of Tom O'Bedlam's Song.) Thus is Tom summoned by the Columbia School of Journalism directly to a top editorial slot at our beloved NYT along with his "host of furious fancies". Many years ago, I believe in the mid-seventies, the NYT Sunday Magazine featured an article concerning a new chi chi thing to do: Use a pile of dirt (yes soil), sanitized in an oven of course, as a center piece for the dinner table at a dinner party. I don't know if this ever caught on, even in New York. But recognizing and publishing and really advocating the would-be trendy, no matter how idiotic, is part of who they are, what they do. ” The meek, the white, the gentle,
Me handle touch and spare not
But those that crosse Tom Rynosseros[Rhinoceros]>
Do what the panther dare not.

With a host of furious fancies
Whereof I am commander,
With a burning spear and a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander.
By a knight of ghostes and shadowes
I summon’d am to tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wild world’s end.
Methinks it is no journey.”

(From the Wiki version of Tom O’Bedlam’s Song.)
Thus is Tom summoned by the Columbia School of Journalism directly to a top editorial slot at our beloved NYT along with his “host of furious fancies”.

Many years ago, I believe in the mid-seventies, the NYT Sunday Magazine featured an article concerning a new chi chi thing to do: Use a pile of dirt (yes soil), sanitized in an oven of course, as a center piece for the dinner table at a dinner party. I don’t know if this ever caught on, even in New York. But recognizing and publishing and really advocating the would-be trendy, no matter how idiotic, is part of who they are, what they do.

]]> By: Harold A. Maio http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1686 Harold A. Maio Sun, 11 May 2008 23:57:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/#comment-1686 To "destigmatize" mental iullnesses would have to first assert the prejudice of those who "stigmaatize" them, to take on their mantle! Nope, I decline. I recognize the ignorances, I fight them, one and all. I don;t teach this one, I don't teach any. Nor do I abet anyone who does. Harold A. Maio Advisory Board American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Board Member Partners in Crisis Former Consulting Editor Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Boston University Language Consultant UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities Home: 8955 Forest St Ft Myers FL 33907 239-275-5798 khmaio@earthlink.net To “destigmatize” mental iullnesses would have to first assert the prejudice of those who “stigmaatize” them, to take on their mantle! Nope, I decline.

I recognize the ignorances, I fight them, one and all. I don;t teach this one, I don’t teach any. Nor do I abet anyone who does.

Harold A. Maio
Advisory Board
American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Board Member
Partners in Crisis
Former Consulting Editor
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
Boston University
Language Consultant
UPENN Collaborative on Community Integration
of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
Home:
8955 Forest St
Ft Myers FL 33907
239-275-5798
khmaio@earthlink.net

]]> By: Roger’s Rules » More lunacy from theTimes, or why an Islamic supremacist is not like Bill Cosby http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 Roger’s Rules » More lunacy from theTimes, or why an Islamic supremacist is not like Bill Cosby Sun, 11 May 2008 13:47:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/were-mad-were-glad-get-used-to-it/#comment-1681 [...] today, I reported on The New York Times’s cheerful story about “mad pride,” the effort by various lunatics (I use the term in the way Mr. [...] [...] today, I reported on The New York Times’s cheerful story about “mad pride,” the effort by various lunatics (I use the term in the way Mr. [...]

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