holy crap

[rm]

Another one of those theoretically minor yet disturbing events in the new world:

Guy gets his bag searched boarding the ferry today. Person searching the bag tries to confiscate a book he has in it.

Read the post:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html

Meanwhile:

"The New Freedom Initiative proposes to screen every American, including you, for mental illness. To this end, the president established a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to study the nation’s mental health delivery service and make a report. It’s interesting to note that many on the staff appointed to the Commission have served on the advisory boards of some of the nation’s largest drug companies."

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830

Better mental health is a good thing, but I don't my government, or the pharmaceutical industry to be involved in the diagnosis process. I've spent the last 8 months doing media analysis on the pharmaceutical industry, and it scares the crap out of me.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... I'm bad with the long sentences too.

I've always been one of those people that gets asked what I am racially/ethnically (which tends to mystify people that actually know me), sometimes especially when I present ID (the name adds a wrinkle to it), so all this crap makes me _insanely_ nervous.

It won't be bad near where I live, but it will be bad near where I work and audition, and quite frankly, I am entirely freaked out.

[lanthinel.livejournal.com]

I have the "advantage" of being a tall blonde-haired blue-eyed white boy? But the long hair and "unprofessional" dress sense (i.e., tshirts and jeans) would probably single myself out. Although people seem to always get the wrong idea when they realize my first name is "Christian," but at least it's an advantageous "wrong idea."

I do have to admit that I'd be pretty damn nervous, too, were I anywhere near there. There's going to be a lot of potential powderkegs just waiting to be set off - a lot of potential "wrong place, wrong time" things waiting to happen. I think it goes without saying that you should watch yourself more so the next month, at least.