LGM Film Club, Part 46: Psychiatry in Russia In 1955, the great documentarian Albert Maysles traveled around the Soviet Union visiting mental hospitals. It became his first film and here it is for you, albeit not the greatest print of it. There’s a lot that is really fascinating here. For some of you who are psychologists or know much more about these issues […]
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The New Tone Today is the day that Donald Trump did not become president. So it was basically the same as yesterday and tomorrow.
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 662 This is the grave of Walt Bellamy. Born in 1939 in New Bern, North Carolina, Bellmay was a star basketball player from the time he was a child and went to Indiana University in 1958 to play. The reason he chose Indiana is that it was the closest team to the South that accepted Black […]
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We have cases More from the Axios HBO interview: It’s cute that somebody thinks this is “devastating” for Trump. I’ve mentioned before that the most consistently underrated fact about Trump is how genuinely stupid he is. And I don’t mean stupid compared to how smart you would want a president of the United States or the manager of […]
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The Mary Rosh Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Sockpuppetry I recently retracted a post that repeated the story of a pseudonymous Twitter account belonging to an instructor at Arizona State University contracting and then dying of COVID-19. On Saturday night, multiple accounts familiar with the field had given their condolences, so I assumed the story was true without checking it out, for which I […]
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