Congressman Naughty Bits is headed for "treatment". He's finding religion, of a secular variety, and seeking a veneer of moral hygiene.
Trendy quackery emphasizes a behavioral lens, with a further emphasis on addiction. It's only harmful to people who are truly suffering. Poorly socialized, self-involved, arrogant, Type A cretins are not suffering. They're not sick at all. They're perfectly adjusted to their environment. That's the problem. They don't need therapy and we, God help us, don't need them.
If he had any real friends, they'd ridicule him and provide a kindly, salutary slap or two upside the head. Okay, maybe more than a slap or two. He's a congressman, however, a Democratic "liberal bulldog", and they don't have friends. What a pity!
The moral hygiene is a stepping stone for people in his class. It's a career move. I expect he'll resurface as a commentator, if he gets forced out of Congress.
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CNN is already dying to team him up with a pretty blonde kewpie doll, so they can talk process and evaluate viability.
Posted by Jack Crow | June 13, 2011 10:31 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 10:31
Oi, Al, this is good aim:
Poorly socialized, self-involved, arrogant, Type A cretins are not suffering. They're not sick at all. They're perfectly adjusted to their environment. That's the problem.
Though I think that's a bit painful to hear for a good number of people.
Posted by Karl | June 13, 2011 10:45 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 10:45
In that progression, one form of psychobabble preps him another, even less worthwhile form of bloviation.
The paleos and libertarians make frequent, scathing references to the "therapeutic state". They have something there. Psycho-quackery is used as extra-judicial punishment and an ad hominem means of delegitimizing any criticism. From the leftier quadrants, it's also a way of forcing obedience to double bind proprieties, bourgeois sanctimony, etc.
Posted by Al Schumann | June 13, 2011 10:55 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 10:55
When DSM-V comes out, it will have lots of categories just waiting to be used for diagnosis of the "illness" at issue in any given dissident. And naturally Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline will have Rx products that will "help" people in all these new categories of "illness."
If it can run a whole sector of the "service economy" then it's a good thing, right?
Posted by Karl | June 13, 2011 11:14 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 11:14
"Liberal bulldog?" P'wahh ha ha ha ha ha ha haahh. Liberal chihuahua, more like.
Anybody here catch this article when it came out:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/06/01/anthony_weiner_israel_liberals
This, along with his race-baiting dirty tricks that first got him elected, is the main reason why I have zero sympathy for this wanker, and why I think -- at least in this instance -- Little Andy Breitbart actually managed to do the right thing, even if only by accident.
PS: May I propose that the name "Anthony" be used as a new euphemism for "penis", along the lines of "Johnson" and "John Thomas"? As in "suck my Anthony, asshole!"?
Posted by Mike Flugennock | June 13, 2011 11:21 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 11:21
Anthony Weiner got caught, that's all. I mean how many poor, unsuspecting girls do you think Nancy Pelosi has exposed her wrinkled balls too?
Posted by Paul Alexander | June 13, 2011 11:57 AM
Posted on June 13, 2011 11:57
Karl, I agree. I think the focus is already on punitive medication and vindictive counseling for children who get antsy in the factory farm child grinding industry.
Posted by Al Schumann | June 13, 2011 1:08 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 13:08
"Anthony" is too long. Call it a "tony."
Posted by Jack Crow | June 13, 2011 1:19 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 13:19
"Tony"? As in Kushner? He is one, and I believe he won one.
Posted by MJS | June 13, 2011 1:42 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 13:42
Trebled entendre, then, MJS. I was think Sopranos, too...
Posted by Jack Crow | June 13, 2011 5:37 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 17:37
"Anthony" is too long.
The jpegs haven't attracted my interest, but that's what I've heard...
Posted by gluelicker | June 13, 2011 8:31 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 20:31
"Poorly socialized, self-involved, arrogant, Type A cretins are not suffering. They're not sick at all. They're perfectly adjusted to their environment."
And they run the world.
Posted by Drunk Pundit | June 13, 2011 11:28 PM
Posted on June 13, 2011 23:28