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Reconciling beliefs about psychological disorders

Mental illnesses are “real” and not just a state of mind that most people can just “get over”.  Drug companies invent mental illnesses to sell more drugs.  I believed and do believe both these things at the same time.  Am I guilty of doublethink?  I certainly thought so when I first realized I held them.

Wind-powered server farms

I finally registered a domain for myself, but it was somewhat of an impulse buy.  The hosting company was having a sale ($2.95/month, domain included), but that wasn’t what sold me.  It was the energy source for the servers: wind power.  Perhaps they have backup fossil-fuel-burning generators and maybe their offices aren’t nearly as green, …

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Car with MPD

On Wednesday at the corner of Wilcocks Ave. and St. George St., a car appeared to be confused as to whether it was playing red light/green light or baseball.  At first, it stopped at the red light.  Then it slowly crept forward a few centimetres as if stealing a base before stopping again, repeating the …

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Send in the terrorists!

I’ve spent numerous summers abroad and missed Canada Day (July 1st) probably close to a dozen times.  However, this year I felt particularly unpatriotic despite singing O Canada in the Union Oyster House with some random Canadians from Kingston who were in Boston for the weekend.  However, after spending a few days in Boston as …

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