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	<title>The Stanton Peele Addiction Website</title>
	<description>Stanton Peele, Ph.D, is a social/clinical psychologist who has greatly influenced the addiction field. His site contains many of his writings on the issue of addiction, which have been published in widely read journals.</description>
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	<title>Michael Jackson's Death Won't Reduce Abuse of Prescription Meds</title>
	<description>The popular claim that Michael Jackson's death will discourage fans from indiscriminately taking pain killers and prescription meds is wrong minded - more Americans will continue to do so, and especially Michael Jackson fans.</description>
	<pubDate>30 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Did Some People Need Michael Jackson to Die?</title>
	<description>Michael Jackson was "inconvenient" alive.</description>
	<pubDate>28 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090628.html</link>
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	<title>Can love be addictive? Ask Mark Sanford - or his wife</title>
	<description>Jenny Sanford can tell us a lot about her husband's love addiction - she should become head of the new National Institute on Addictive Diseases.</description>
	<pubDate>27 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090627.html</link>
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	<title>Casual Cruelty Towards Children (Which Doesn't Stop There)</title>
	<description>Allegra Huston describes the crueltly of adults who raised her.</description>
	<pubDate>22 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Psychological Interview with Barack Obama</title>
	<description>For me, the most remarkable thing about Barack Obama is his groundedness and confidence, along with the apparent healthiness of his family life. Here's the interview I'd like to see with the President.</description>
	<pubDate>10 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Two Views of Apology</title>
	<description>Obama critics (e.g., Gingrich, O'Reilly, Hannity, Rove) call his oversea forays "apology tours." For these men, and others, to concede errors is the height of national and personal weakness.</description>
	<pubDate>4 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Susan Boyle's Breakdown: Isn't she a bit like you and me?</title>
	<description>Susan Boyle's breakdown in the aftermath of her second place finish in "Britain's Got Talent" finals Saturday night illustrates two perplexing areas of human behavior: depression and procrastination. Why do people get stuck in unhappy life spaces?</description>
	<pubDate>4 Jun 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090604.html</link>
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	<title>Why We Can't Solve Autism</title>
	<description>I don't know the answer, but I can lay out the logical possibilities.</description>
	<pubDate>25 May 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090525.html</link>
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	<title>Bullshitting: Lessons from the Masters</title>
	<description>Although independent analysts repeatedly tipped the SEC that Bernie Madoff was perpetrating a Ponzi scheme, and in fact the agency conducted several investigations of Madoff's operation, they never identified him as a fraud. This post presents the rules for optimal bullshitting from Madoff, fellow alleged Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, and that supreme master of the science of bullshitting, Donald Trump.</description>
	<pubDate>16 May 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090515.html</link>
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	<title>Tilda Swinton Saves the Free World: Redemption Through Action</title>
	<description>Tilda Swinton (as Julia), Goldie Hawn, and the memory of Winston Churchill are at war over the American psyche and soul. At issue is whether we must all seek redemption through recovery and neuroscience, or whether any room remains for danger, living, loving, eating and drinking.</description>
	<pubDate>10 May 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090509.html</link>
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	<title>Five Questions Oprah Should Have Asked Elizabeth Edwards</title>
	<description>Oprah Winfrey seemingly confronted critical issues in her interview with Elizabeth Edwards about Edwards' book, Resilience. The book and the interview focused on presidential hopeful John Edwards' infidelity. Yet the questions Winfrey asked Elizabeth left all kinds of wiggle room -- factually, morally, emotionally. This was even truer when she encountered the spectral John roaming around the Edwards' obscenely large residence.</description>
	<pubDate>7 May 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090506.html</link>
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	<title>The Life-and-Death Struggle over the Meaning of Addiction: Do God and Nature Back DSM-V?</title>
	<description>Why are they fighting over addiction in the American psychiatric bilble, DSM-V - wasn't it defined in those tablets God gave Moses?</description>
	<pubDate>26 Apr 2009 05:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>States' Cross-Dressing Flummoxes Times</title>
	<description>When Iowa's Supreme Court voted unanimously that a state law banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, while New York's highest court had previously upheld a ban of gay marriage and California voters passed an initiative making gay marital unions illegal, Times editorial and op-ed writers were unhinged.</description>
	<pubDate>12 Apr 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090412.html</link>
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	<title>Shiksas in Film</title>
	<description>The advent of Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen has placed at the forefront of modern American cinema Jewish male-gentile female (Shiksa) relationships - although this angle is often not explicitly (or is only tangentially) acknowledged in their films.</description>
	<pubDate>11 Apr 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090411.html</link>
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	<title>Abusing Kids for Fun and Profit</title>
	<description>A popular TV segment shows misbehaving children being escorted to a prison, where inmates and/or prison guards scream at them. Returning to the studio, the kids vow to behave better. As well as comprising child abuse in itself, such programs have uniformly been shown to have negative effects, leading to more delinquency and violence in their aftermath.</description>
	<pubDate>6 Apr 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090406.html</link>
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	<title>Letting Alcoholics Drink</title>
	<description>A monumentally important research study allowed homeless men in shelters to drink. Over a year, these alcoholic men drank less and spent far less time in detox, jail, and hospitals, which in turn reduced per capita costs significantly. This study challenges America's AA-abstinence-only orthodoxy, including the mantra that alcoholics will end up in jail, a hospital, or dead if they don't stop drinking.</description>
	<pubDate>4 Apr 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090404.html</link>
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	<title>Looking into the Future: Mr. Obama, Legalize This Drug!</title>
	<description>While looking forward on matters of international relations, the global economy, and health care, President Obama has decided that legalizing marijuana can be laughed off as a pothead conspiracy. Every President needs targets audiences can join in mocking. This proposal can't be slighted, however, and it won't be for too much longer - many policy and economic wonks are already evaluating it. President Obama may be intimidated by reactions to his revelations that he took drugs. But he is missing the boat.</description>
	<pubDate>30 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090330.html</link>
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	<title>Should Mothers Teach Daughters to Enjoy Sex?</title>
	<description>Sophisticated media types talk about female sexuality like giggling school children. Yet sexual satisfaction is a central life issue, and sexual abuse and misbehavior one of the media's favorite topics.</description>
	<pubDate>25 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090325.html</link>
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	<title>Is the President Having a Nervous Breakdown?</title>
	<description>As a psychologist, I admire Barack Obama's self-confidence and sure footing in his public appearances. People often speak of his feeling comfortable within his skin. So I am puzzled by his PR mistakes, like comparing his bowling to Special Olympics participants on Jay Leno. This was followed by his breezy 60 Minutes appearance which was punctuated with what he termed "gallows" laughter at strange and unpredictable points.</description>
	<pubDate>23 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090323.html</link>
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	<title>What Do We Learn from the Osbournes About Addiction and Recovery?</title>
	<description>The Osbourne family's drug addictions are back in the news as Kelly Obsourne, 24-year-old daughter of famed rocker and substance abuser Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon, has just left her third stint at rehab. Ozzie has bragged about how his kids got into rehab (including also youngest son Jack) much earlier than he had. But is this working out for them?</description>
	<pubDate>21 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090321.html</link>
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	<title>The History of Playgrounds in Cartoons</title>
	<description>Previously, I described the lives of today's children, where our fears and overprotectiveness have turned them into household pets. Since that post, I have been alerted to the case of a mother in a small Mississippi town whose 10-year-old son was picked up by police as he walked to nearby soccer practice. The cops said many people had called the authorities in alarm, and they threatened to charge the mother with child endangerment.</description>
	<pubDate>19 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090319.html</link>
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	<title>Why Do Teen Girls Diss Rihanna?</title>
	<description>The Rihanna-Chris Brown case, in which the 19-year-old pop-soul star Brown choked, threatened to kill, and repeatedly punched his 21-year-old girlfriend and fellow music star, Rihanna, has revealed the ambivalence and impotence of standard advice to and about abuse victims. Inner city teens simply do not accept standard messages about girlfriend abuse.</description>
	<pubDate>18 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090318.html</link>
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	<title>What if Americans aren't good enough?</title>
	<description>You remember Stuart Smalley, on Saturday Night Live, reassuring himself with his mantra, &amp;ldquo;I’m good enough, I’m smart enough. . . Every discussion of the economic crisis by members of either political party begins with laudatory comments about how productive American workers are, how creative and gifted our entrepreneurs are. Then answer me this – why have American automobiles, which have lagged behind Japanese cars in quality rankings for decades, fallen even farther behind in 2009? What if, when we summon our best efforts, we just can’t cut it?</description>
	<pubDate>15 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090315.html</link>
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	<title>Will Our Kids Be Happy? Why we don't allow them to find out for themselves</title>
	<description>New York Times parenting columnist Judith Warner revealed she is exploring the "exciting new field of developmental neuroscience," where the best and the brightest may be headed for careers now that Wall Street has collapsed.

Will that world, in which highly motivated and intelligent parents like Warner labor intensely to master phrases like "single nucleotide polymorphism," be a happier one for our children? Or are kids better off playing mindlessly by themselves or with other kids in the playgound?</description>
	<pubDate>13 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090313.html</link>
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	<title>Why We Can't Legalize Drugs</title>
	<description>We can't legalize drugs - despite political, economic, even survival pressures to do so - because of deep underlying American mindsets against drugs, the two primary ones being that we believe continuing drug use is, or causes, a disease, and that parents can't bear to imagine their kids taking drugs. As to the disease mindset, it is maintained and promoted by both pro- and anti-legalization proponents.</description>
	<pubDate>12 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090312a.html</link>
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	<title>Republican Women's Sexual Frustration</title>
	<description>Prominent Republican women seem to have a hard time gaining sexual satisfaction.

As I have previously written, Cindy McCain just does not come across as a hot tamale in bed; her relationship with hubby John seems distant and - well - cold (have you ever seen the two hug, or dance, or caress one another - like the Obama's regularly do?). Even her drug preferences - she was charged with palming off prescriptions from her charity - are downers and painkillers that don't suggest sexuality (think Rush Limbaugh).</description>
	<pubDate>12 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090312.html</link>
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	<title>The Same Thing that Makes Us Love Makes Us Hate - The "Us-Them" Quiz</title>
	<description>A TV program staged a scene where a woman in Middle Eastern garb tried to buy bread in a store, and the clerk (planted by the program) berated her for her Arab sympathies. Most customers ignored the scene, but a few people jumped in to join the clerk in attacking the woman, including holding hr accountable for 9-11 and the Iraq War. Only one man actively stood up for her right to buy some baked goods. Given enough time (the TV producers stopped the scam) he himself might have been in real trouble.</description>
	<pubDate>9 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090309.html</link>
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	<title>Caught in the Headlights -- Psychologist on O'Reilly</title>
	<description>One psychological study which made the news was headlined, &amp;ldquo;Sarah Palin’s Good Looks May Have Hurt Republican Ticket.” When interviewed, one author of the study was incapable of explaining (a) the study’s methodology, (b) the study’s findings, (c) what the study’s results mean. The disastrous outcome – people were affirmed in thinking psychological research is useless bullshit.</description>
	<pubDate>7 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090307a.html</link>
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	<title>States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"</title>
	<description>States make money off of addictive substances. The cigarette settlements made a ton of dough for the states. But these settlements also created problems - as does raising cigarette taxes. Although the states can claim they are doing God's work by discouraging addiction, at the same time they are reducing cigarette taxes and tobacco-company funding the states need to offset future expenses.</description>
	<pubDate>7 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090307.html</link>
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	<title>Inject Resveratrol, Don't Drink!</title>
	<description>The claim that red wine, operating through its component chemical, resveratrol, has health benefits (as seen on 60 Minutes) is actually an anti-alcohol campaign. Moderate drinking has been shown over decades in scores of well-controlled studies to reduce heart disease. Since this is the way most Americans die, alcohol reduces mortality. A similar series of studies has now shown that moderate drinking reduces dementia.

But Americans will never accept this - our attitudes towards and experiences with alcohol are too corrupted. And so people who want to drink alcohol actually ignore that it is good for you and instead seek strange and fallacious theories that some mysterious chemical may accomplish what alcohol is known to do.</description>
	<pubDate>6 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090306.html</link>
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	<title>Dr. Stanton Peele on The American Faith Healers</title>
	<description>Dr. Peele discusses the Temperance based theology informing 12 Step ideology, and the "disease" view of addictive behaviors, as uniquely American fetishes. 

Interview by Andrew Proscyk. Edited by Patrick J. Bergin, MD. Copyright Andrew Proscyk, 2007.</description>
	<pubDate>4 Mar 2009 07:33:33 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/lib/faithhealers.html</link>
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	<title>Readers Quiz: Which race takes more drugs?</title>
	<description>The United States measures its drug and alcohol use more than any other society, now or ever, as represented by its annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Which race do you think is more likely to smoke marijuana? (Advanced quiz takers: at the end of this piece are eight factual observations about Americans, race, and drug use - pick three to explain.)</description>
	<pubDate>3 Mar 2009 18:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090303.html</link>
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	<title>Rihanna Returns to Man Who Maimed Her - What this tells us about addiction</title>
	<description>After fellow teen idol Chris Brown beat her like a drum, then fobbed off a self-excusing apology, Rihanna has returned to her lover, likening his violence to a sibling rivalry between competitive kids. Her case actually illuminates addiction in a way a cocaine habit can't.</description>
	<pubDate>2 Mar 2009 06:06:44 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090301.html</link>
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	<title>Drug Policy Reform: Is the Timing Perfect, or Are We Ahead of the Times?</title>
	<description>So far, Barack Obama has indicated no penchant for pushing a drug policy reform agenda -- his selection for Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske, formerly police chief of Seattle, is an unknown quantity who has neither espoused reform nor opposed it. Are those of us who seek changes in the American approach to drugs whistling in the dark, or is now the time to strike?</description>
	<pubDate>3 Mar 2009 18:47:59 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090228.html</link>
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	<title>Three Things You're Not Allowed to Say About the Obamas - But They're True - and They Make Me Love Them More</title>
	<description>Barack wouldn't be president if he didn't marry a black woman. Barack Obama - whose white mother, then her parents, raised him in white households - might have married a white woman. He was educated at largely white institutions - attending Hawaii's prestigious Punahou Academy (one of three African-American students there), then matriculating at Occidental College in Los Angeles and Columbia University, before moving to Chicago to work with inner-city residents, then returning to the Ivy League to attend Harvard Law School. By the nature of these places, he associated mainly with whites in school.</description>
	<pubDate>26 Feb 2009 16:38:14 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090226.html</link>
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	<title>Screw CSI: The Chandra Levy Case Reveals, Once Again, Police Can't Find Their Asses with Both Hands</title>
	<description>What depresses me about Law &amp; Order, CSI, Without a Trace, Cold Case File, and all similar police and investigatory shows on television is not that they expeditiously solve crimes every week through meticulous sleuthing. It's that real law enforcement, crime labs, and investigatory agencies virtually never get things right.

The Washington D.C. police will reportedly soon announce the arrest of someone for the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy. The suspect they are expected to name has been in federal prisons for the last eight years, since pleading guilty to assaulting two women in a park near where the 24-year-old California woman's body was found. The assaults he admitted to were in the same time frame as the murder. Oh, did I mention, an informant first came forward identifying this man in September, 2001, seven-and-a-half years ago?...</description>
	<pubDate>25 Feb 2009 05:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090224.html</link>
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	<title>Video: Dr. Stanton Peele on Addiction</title>
	<description>Interview by Andrew Proscyk. Edited by Patrick J. Bergin, MD.</description>
	<pubDate>24 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/lib/proscyk.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Problems America Won't Solve in Our Lifetimes, #2 - Addiction</title>
	<description>Writing in 1977, Richard Restak - who is still a major voice in neuropsychiatry - wrote excitedly calling the endorphins, "a group of substances that hold out the promise of alleviating, or even eliminating, such age-old medical bugaboos as pain, drug addiction, and, among other mental illnesses, schizophrenia." It may be too soon to judge, but how do you think we're doing so far in eliminating addiction?</description>
	<pubDate>21 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090221.html</link>
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	<title>Problems America Won't Solve in Our Lifetimes, #1 - Education</title>
	<description>Okay, that title's too pessimistic - let's instead call this, "A Call to Action for America." However, the reason I know these issues can't be solved is because they re-appear front and center every election campaign, only to worsen in time for the next one.

Education: Have you heard anybody say lately, "Our only hope for the future is improving our education system?" Or did you hear that four years ago, or eight years ago (remember the bipartisan - or was it bipolar - "No child left behind") or was that during the Carter or Kennedy-Johnson presidencies (remember Sputnik and the rush to improve education under JFK)?</description>
	<pubDate>19 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090219.html</link>
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	<title>Health Care Policy by HuffPo Celebrities - Don't Attack Me!</title>
	<description>The United States spends more on health care than any country in the world (twice as much per capita as comparable countries), spends far more on medical research, and yet does not have a healthy population -- in fact, the opposite is true. One reason -- I'm scared to tell HuffPo readers -- is that we conduct health care policy by celebrities, including some of their favorites. Both our economy and our health care are damaged by our inability to sensibly allocate limited health care resources...</description>
	<pubDate>18 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090218a.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Is Teaching Your Kid to "Do the Right Thing" Child Abuse?</title>
	<description>Some people live according to internal moral codes (even if these come from external religious beliefs) - they tell the truth, live within their means, confess their misdeeds, pay their taxes, take responsibility for their actions, succeed due to their own efforts, don't become substance abusers - and they teach their children to do the same. If so, they aren't preparing their offspring for the world we live in. Intentionally creating maladjusted children is the definition of child abuse.</description>
	<pubDate>18 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090218.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Americans Are Not the Luckiest People on Earth</title>
	<description>Americans are not good at visualizing other ways of being. Thus, when confronted with places like Spain, where the drinking age is 16 but kids of all ages are given alcohol in many contexts, Americans are sure that Spaniards are all drunkards.

In fact, Spain has near to the lowest rates of adult alcoholism and adolescent drunkenness in the Western world. This has to do with the way the Spanish learn to think about and consume alcohol as a positive concomitant to active social engagements. But the entire Spanish lifestyle, one which focuses on the rich tapestry of human engagement and life's pleasures, makes the Spanish less desperate -- happier -- than Americans are.</description>
	<pubDate>16 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090216a.html</link>
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	<title>Burris Has Blagojevitis (Main Symptom: Denying Any Wrongdoing!)</title>
	<description>It was with sadness that we learned that newly appointed Illinois Senator Roland Burris has contracted Blagojevitis (also called "denialism"), a disease in which government officials accused of corruption claim that they don't know what people mean - they've done nothing wrong - until they expire while still babbling, "I'm innocent, not a taint, no wrongdoing. . . ."</description>
	<pubDate>16 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090216.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>"I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today": Americans Want What We Can't Pay For</title>
	<description>Let me see if I have this straight: Congress summons bank executives to complain they aren't lending enough money -- since taxpayers have bailed the banks out the executives have to listen -- the reason the banks needed to be bailed out was that they lent money to people who couldn't pay them back. (I say this as a person who was recently denied a mortgage -- or was I rejected by that pesky co-op board -- no matter.)</description>
	<pubDate>12 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090212a.html</link>
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	<title>The Science of Apologies -- Or Is It Child's Play?</title>
	<description>Let's see, teens observing the contrition of Michael Phelps, who has won 14 Olympic gold medals, will never (again) smoke marijuana. Young people will internalize how much Alex Rodriguez, baseball's highest-paid player, regrets using steroids en route to becoming the all-time major league home run king. And the example of teen idol Chris Brown's alleged assault on his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, will certainly discourage other young men from such behavior...</description>
	<pubDate>12 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090212.html</link>
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	<title>Phelps and Rodriguez Show It Pays to Take Drugs</title>
	<description>What does it say that Michael Phelps, the all-time Olympic gold medal champion, and Alex Rodriguez, baseball's highest paid player, have both consumed illegal substances? 

Of course, I'm not saying drug use is "good." I'm saying it's ubiquitous. If people can't develop skill at managing drug use -- along with many other potentially addictive involvements in life -- they face rough sledding. Life preservation is a more basic instinct than the instinct to use or not use substances...</description>
	<pubDate>11 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090211.html</link>
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	<title>Arrest Michael Phelps!</title>
	<description>The sheriff's office in Richland County, S.C., is investigating a report -- prompted by a photo of the event published in a British tabloid -- that Olympic hero Michael Phelps smoked marijuana there. It's possible Mr. Phelps will be prosecuted. That's right: For those of you who don't know, marijuana is illegal...</description>
	<pubDate>5 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/lib/phelps.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Is the Octuplets' Mother Crazy, Addicted, or Anti-social?</title>
	<description>Watching Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets, calmly explain herself to NBC's Ann Curry, a number of concerns may rush through our heads. In fact, Suleman reminds me of no one so much as Rod Blagojevich. Both maintain they are are sane - and moreover right - in the face of nearly universal opprobrium...</description>
	<pubDate>9 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090209.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Taking Words Seriously - Romeo and Juliet are Troubled Kids</title>
	<description>As I have written previously, bloggers quickly learn that most people are simply waiting when reading something to offload their own opinions. A recent reader of my post on Romeo and Juliet, a play I point out is a case study of fatal love addiction, commented that "Your article trivializes a great piece of poetry, and fails to appreciate Shakespeare's real knowledge of human nature."

Not surprisingly, I disagree. Romeo and Juliet is not a paean to young love - it's more a funeral bier to immaturity.</description>
	<pubDate>8 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090208.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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	<title>Obama Issues New Vetting Standards!</title>
	<description>President Barack Obama has issued a new set of standards to his vetting committee, revising them downwards substantially. Here is his memo:...</description>
	<pubDate>4 Feb 2009 16:22:29 GMT</pubDate>
	<link>http://www.peele.net/blog/090204a.html</link>
	<author>stanton@peele.net (Stanton Peele)</author>
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