Archive for the 'suicide' Category
Dear AIG: Don’t Quit! I Have a Better Suggestion!
Via atrios, I learned that the crybabies executives at AIG might quit if they have to take a pay cut:
Five senior executives at American International Group told the bailed-out insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The five senior AIG executives [...]
Cannibal Cafe
Chi Pig with Hellbent Cuntry: “Cannibal Cafe” (SNFU)
Come with me, I’m on my way
To the Cannibal Cafe
Won’t you come to the only place
Where you can be the “Special Of The Day”?
It’s eating itself:
The social conservatives and moderates who together boosted the Republican Party to dominance have begun a tense battle over the future of the [...]
Midlife Suicides
The Times and Researchers wonder why there’s been a spike in midlife suicides.
I don’t see what’s so hard to understand: the prospect of endless war, the specter of sudden unemployment and stingy/nonexistent unemployment benefits, fewer chances for retirement, life in a totalitarian police state, getting old without any kind of adequate healthcare, and the ongoing [...]
Modest Proposal: An Expanded Re-Post
Back in the heady days of 2005, I offered a Modest Proposal for the New York Times, regarding the only honorable path for the Times Editors to take in the wake of the Judy Miller scandal.
Given recent revelations that Iraq is almost in total chaos, that it will take the US “decades” to rebuild the [...]
Suicide
In 1985, James Crowley, a kid from my high school who I never liked, hanged himself at the age of 15.
In 1986, my friend Christy Reidy did the job with pills. She was 16 or 17.
A few years later, in 1990, my friend John St. John got drunk and put a hole through his head [...]
