“Shmashortion?”

Awesome show, see http://www.slate.com/id/2182943/pagenum/1/

Whose high school is this? (Whose high school does this even parody?)

had to do some tricks to get the dvd to play here in the states, but well worth it

Great, well-written book (much clearer and more interesting than a textbook). I’d like to use it if I teach “Brain, Behavior, and Cognition” next year, but it’s so expensive!

Funny therapy scenes! Includes group therapy/ support groups, a client’s curiosity about his therapist’s personal life/ his desire for his therapist to disclose more, and partners mocking their couples counselor.

A series of dull, meandering shots that aren’t all that interesting unless you have a thing for the Kennedys such that you’re amused that they have loony relatives… which I don’t and I’m not, since in isn’t the 70’s.

This is Michael Moore’s best documentary. Bowling for Columbine sort of annoyed me, Fahrenheit 911 insulted me, but this one is wonderful. Important, decent, true (it hurt—lots of incredulous laughter in the audience, including me). Much appreciated—bravo, sir.

I hope someone takes up more particularly the mental health care industry. There was a brief mention of sleeping pills and anxiety/ depression meds. prescribed when problems are obviously societal, i.e., major stress from having copious debt and worrying about not getting health care or being able to go to school or maybe losing a loved one in the war… instead of letting up on the factors that keep people from being “healthy, educated, and confident,” they get pills to ignore it. People are really hurting, and it doesn’t have to be that bad. Frustrating for a therapist.

you know, women uniting rather than turning against one another to protect a man like on Springer… but ended up re-inscribing all the old values: glorifying and forgiving male infidelity and hyper-sexuality, dragging out tired old female stereotypes and making pms jokes, and ultimately undoing the message of feminine strength and unity by having the women turn on one another and compete for the man (who is surprisingly heroic and even Christlike in the climactic scene)... as bell hooks might say, “just another shitty movie”

Basic, helpful recommendations.