Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times

[Devine, James]

Sam Smith writes: Placated by Prozac



In my understanding,
Prozac and similar Saris don't placate. Instead, they allow people
to more effectively deal with the personal reasons why theyre depressed,
especially in conjunction with talk therapy. (Thats not to deny the
side-effects or the over-prescription of such drugs, of course. But those are
different problems.)

JD

[PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times

[Devine, James]

Oops. My clicking the wrong button on my spell-checker
changed SSRIs to Saris!





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From: Devine, James 
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004
8:07 AM
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Subject: RE: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on
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Sam Smith writes: Placated by Prozac



In my understanding,
Prozac and similar Saris don't placate. Instead, they allow people to
more effectively deal with the personal reasons why theyre depressed,
especially in conjunction with talk therapy. (Thats not to deny the
side-effects or the over-prescription of such drugs, of course. But those are
different problems.)

JD

Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times

[Chris Burford]

wheels will be dropping off within two years, not just four.
I think there will be a price for the support from the rest of the
world.
I mean it's not just about the time frame, it's about somehow some
changes in the nature of politics that hopefully are more fundamental
than which president is in office.
Chris Burford

- Original Message -
From: Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times
I remember how bleak the world looked at the time of Nixon's second
inaugural, when the prospect of Four More Years! seemed the curse
of the
ages.  Then, presto, in no time at all the wheels started to come
off the
Nixon presidency with the advent of Watergate.  Likewise, GWB's
second term
doesn't signal the start of any thousand-year reich.  I have a sure
sense
that this second term will spell finis for the conservative
ascendancy that
started in the late '70s.  However content Americans may be to live
in a
fantasy world, the rest of the planet simply will not continue to
support
our self-indulgence -- in areas ranging from Mideast policy to the
US
external debt -- as it has until now.  GWB's mandate-driven second
term will
be exceptionally unpleasant for progressives in the U.S., but
there's no
question that the mass of Americans will be in the mood for
something
completely different in four years.  There are great opportunities
for the
left ahead if the left prepares for them.
Carl