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Monday, June 20, 2011

The boom business in mental illness

Amazing: Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children, well ahead of physical disabilities like cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, for which the federal programs were created. Nice roundup of skeptical books.
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      • The Galliano affair: dog bites man
      • Russian monarchists on the radio
      • Mike Dukakis and Bill Weld
      • As if war were not enough
      • George Osborne says of banks...
      • Cheyenne is the new Vaduz
      • "Conservatives" celebrate gay marriage
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      • Collecting and eating snails
      • Racial neutrality violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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      • Let's play Euro Scramble
      • "Chug for growth"
      • What would Andrew Jackson say?
      • Make him a general!
      • New Army sumptuary laws (cont.)
      • The curse of the Afghanistan War Timetable
      • Church of England opts for Heliolatry
      • "What we can learn from Estonia"
      • "...government is the primary cause of systemic risk"
      • People get happy listening to the radio
      • The "Sound Money Protection Act" introduced today
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      • Is property defined by potential advantage?
      • Bovard opposes extrajudicial killings
      • IMF studies US financial lobbying
      • "Greece is a kleptocracy"
      • Better a Mussolini ending
      • Connecticut follows the Greeks
      • The glacial pace of a wartime Pentagon
      • To be a politician...
      • The new IMF managing director
      • "A celebration of the discredited seatbelt law"
      • A Greek MP awaits the word
      • Wall Street dissimulates
      • "Punitive psychiatry" is back in Russia
      • Car of the day
      • Local government debt in China: $1.65 trillion
      • What would Ambrose Bierce say?
      • Taleb: "Had Reagan not bailed out Citibank in 1983...
      • College athletics - you have it backwards
      • Pope Benedict XVI is tweeting
      • SC takes Republican Party off welfare rolls
      • Zoellick, Greenspan, and Mundell
      • What is this world coming to?
      • Deinstitutionalization continues
      • New York City has gone too far
      • Shovel ready job: making new cribs
      • Jesse says the silver cartel breaks first
      • Obama's "nuclear weapons renaissance"
      • Lawson on "green jobs"
      • Moody: Japan could face third lost decade
      • Remembering John V. Lindsay as an unhealthy indulg...
      • Art prize awarded on coin toss
      • More Bush than Bush
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      • Crony capitalism - a how to
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      • The law school bubble
      • Obama raffle - guess the prize?
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