Comments on: Thursday briefs

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:45:37 +0000

Oh, I have to disagree to some extent on Dr. Laura. I used to listen to her more often when she was on locally during the day and the only classical music available on the radio was the Canadian request show. I don’t think she saw nuances that were there but by and large I thought she was right on most of the big issues. Not, perhaps, someone around whom to construct your overall code of living but who is? And i thought her books contained a lot of sensible advice.

That said, the last thing I would think of doing is calling up someone like her and discussing my private life in frotn of ten million listeners.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:25:51 +0000

In reply to Omri. Omri, you know I love you, but you are so wrong about people needing therapy that I don't even know where to begin. What, people who suffer from clinical depression need someone to give them moral judgment before they can deal with their depression? Are you, ah, nuts? You're confusing exhibitionists who like to tell millions of listeners what their issues are with people who genuinely need help. And you're confusing Laura Schlesinger with real therapists. She's a hack.

By: Omri

Omri — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:37:18 +0000

The one time I listened to her show, the caller was a man who had left his wife and two kids, and was living with his new girlfriend, and was irate because hos kids were visiting and were “being manipulative.” Dr. Schlesinger refused to listen to what he might have meant by that word, told him that the kids were misbehaving because they were hurt by his actions, and that he needed to reclaim his responsibilities as a father, which did not expire when he changed his residence. I can respect the man for calling her, and for Dr. Schlesinger for not over-analyzing the behavior of small children.

Generally, when people are distressed badly to need a therapist, they are distressed by something that is at least partly driven by their conduct, and they should discuss it with someone who is willing to discuss the moral angle and exercise judgment on it, instead of someone who is bound by his trade to be “non-judgemental.”

Whether that should be Dr. Laura, however, is another issue.

By: Licorne Negro

Licorne Negro — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:22:41 +0000

Only 56%?
I mean… Only 56%?
The Israelis are really optimistic…