WHAT'S UP WITH ALL THE WHINING?
Like most Americans, I have a morning routine that one interrupts at their own peril. And for me, one important element of that routine is watching a few minutes of The Today Show before I head off to work. For some strange reason, I just don't feel quite ready to tackle the day if Matt, Meredith, Al, and Ann haven't given me a rundown on the big stories facing our nation. So, you can imagine how grumpy I was last week when my Today Show experience involved witnessing part of an interview with Dr. (of Physiology) Laura Schlessinger pimping her new book Stop Whining, Start Living.
Rather than go with my instinct, however, to throw the remote at the television, I decided to attempt a little self help and take in some of Dr. Laura's sage advice. And you know what? ... She's right! There is a great deal of whining going on in Santa Barbara lately. In fact, Dr. Laura's wisdom got me thinking about some prime examples of major whining taking place around here ...
- When the News-Press accused Jerry Roberts of downloading porn, Dr. Laura was pretty whiny about the public's negative reaction to Wendy McCaw's actions. Then, a few weeks later, when her son was accused of the same thing, she whined, "We hope all news media outlets will respect his privacy ..."
- When a former NP Healthspan columnist stated that Dr. Laura has "the cajones to preach against tolerating diversity" in one if his columns, man, you would not believe the whining that occurred. Dr. Laura whined-up such a storm that it resulted in the firing of his editor and the resignation of the columnist himself.
- Come to think of it, what do you think lead to her intolerant label in the first place? Hmmm, maybe it was Dr. Laura constantly whining that gays and lesbians are 'abnormal,' 'aberrant,' 'deviant,' 'disordered,' 'dysfunctional,' and 'an error.' That would be my guess anyway.
In the Amazon.com book description for Dr. Laura's new tome, it states that Stop Whining, Start Living encourages whiners "to reject negative thoughts, emotions, and attitudes; shift perspective; open up to gratitude and goodness; and embrace obligations to loved ones and the world in general." Sounds good. I think a great place to start would be for Santa Barbarans to reject the huge steaming pile of negative thoughts, emotions, and attitudes that come from Dr. Laura and the News-Press as a whole.
Yep, it's definitely time to push out those bad emotions and embrace the good. For example, the gigantic collective 2,000 person whine that occurred when Dr. Laura's picture popped-up on the screen during Citizen McCaw was just quite unproductive for the public's healing process. I mean, booing and hissing is very negative behavior.
So, thank you, Dr. Laura. I very much look forward to a lack of whining over the next few years ... from all of us.
posted by Trekking Left @ 12:56 PM
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The hypocrisy of it makes you realize that she is either stupid or delusional enough to think that the rest of us can't see right through her. Unfortunately for the other 80% of the popualtion, they probably can't. Maybe she is on to something.
encourages whiners "to reject negative thoughts, emotions, and attitudes; shift perspective; open up to gratitude and goodness; and embrace obligations to loved ones and the world in general.
My "obligation" to the world? You see, that is the problem. We've gotten so "civilized" that we no longer know when it is time to kick ass and take names. That kind of lovey dovey crap only works in her delusional (un)reality. She wouldn't last ten seconds in the jungle.
I see why everyone is so turned off by Dr. (of physiology) Laura. She's fairly hypocritical, obviously. But have any of you read any of her books? The Proper Care and Feeding books are actually quite good. And I'd like to hear you folks argue against her assertion that having two parents in the household is actually (gasp!) GOOD for your children. What say you?
And I'd like to hear you folks argue against her assertion that having two parents in the household is actually (gasp!) GOOD for your children. What say you?
Works for me. The world is overpopulated as it is, IMO.
Can the parents be gay?
I would concede that she probably has some nuggets of good advice in her books. But that's not really the point. The fact is that she's a bad person who caused a lot of pain for good people I know who worked at the News-Press. I would no sooner read her book than I would read a book by Nipper ... even if it had excellent advice about water.
t.l., We can't allow gay people to adopt because that would set a bad precedent. Better they should go hungry and unloved. [/sarcasm]
I'm pretty sure the Dr. (of physiology) would say it is NOT okay that the two parents be gay.
MCC, Where do you stand on adoption? Contraception? Population controls?
adoption: who is against adoption? uhhhh, I am solidly FOR adoption!
contraception: i'm not a believer (in God) so rubbers aren't evil in my book. in fact i wish more people who are sexually active would use them so they don't have babies they can't raise. i am NOT for, however, teaching contraception methods to 4th graders like so many liberals.
population control: hmmm. with these issues you query of me it makes me think you might have seen Logan's Run a few too many times. are you asking me here if I agree with the Chinese law of one child per family? I don't. but I also hold a bit of disdain for the ideology of the Mormons which pushes families to have the 9.5 kids as opposed to the average 2.5.
just my opinions, of course.
Nope, not talking about Logan's run, but I did see one azzhole with seventeen kids on television. Real cute, big joke. Ha ha. Am I reading you right, you are pro-adoption, but anti-gay adoption? What about wolves, is it okay to be raised by wolves?
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