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Washington Seeks Counseling at Treatment Center:

Disgraced Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington was checked into a residential treatment facility in a bid to keep his job on the medical drama, according to news reports in America. The actor hit the headlines last year with anti-gay remarks he made towards cast mate TR Knight on the set of the show. He repeated the remarks in a bid to clear his name at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month. After publicly apologizing for using the derogatory word “f****t” in public last week, Washington met with enraged gay community leaders on Monday. Accepting he needs help, Washington checked into the unnamed facility for a “psychological assessment” this morning, according to a report in American publication Life & Style. His decision to seek help for his comments came after Washington met with TV bosses at ABC, the network that airs Grey’s Anatomy in the US. A source tells the publication, “ABC has told him he must enter a program to examine why he would say such hateful words.”

It might be that he uses the word because he grew up hearing worse and managed to not curl up in a little ball in the corner, all because he realized that name calling is not the same as, say, tying someone to a fence and leaving them to die, or dragging them behind a truck until they resemble nothing more than ground chuck.

On another note, now that ‘faggot’ is the ‘F-word’, where does that leave everyones favorite OTHER ‘F-word’? Is it simply another word now? Can we start saying it in meetings and on tv and in church?

PS: If he comes back and says it’s because he is an alcoholic, I give up. Game over.

This isn’t the first time this has happened, but yesterday and today, BabyGotMac has taken a lot of traffic. But, like the last time I had a huge surge in visitors, they once again appear to be predominantly German.

Must be something in the way I write that appeals to their senses…
:)

While reading a heated online discussion today about MLK and his deservedness of a national holiday, someone posted that Frederick Douglass was at least as deserving if not more so, and posted the following quote:

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.

I’ve never seen that before, but holy moly, isn’t that simply amazing? If that doesn’t fit todays political and social climate dead on, i don’t know what ever possibly could.

‘BANSHEE’ NICOLE DROVE ‘ME’ TO MURDER

Ugh. Will someone just shoot this guy in the face already? This is disgusting.

On the “night in question,” Simpson says he had left his daughter Sydney’s dance recital “in a foul mood . . . stewing over the behavior of his ex-wife,” the report says.

“He races to Nicole’s Bundy Drive condo before boarding a plane to Chicago.

“He parks in the dark alley behind her condo and dons the knit wool cap and gloves he keeps handy to ward off the chill on the golf course,” according to the magazine’s account of the book.

“He also has a knife in the Bronco . . . for protection against L.A. ‘crazies.’ He intends to scare her.

“He enters through a broken gate and encounters Goldman.”

Simpson accuses Goldman of planning a sexual encounter with Nicole, which Goldman denies. Nicole tells Simpson to leave Ron alone. Goldman’s fate is sealed when Kato, Nicole’s Akita, emerges and gives [Goldman] a friendly tail wag, according to Newsweek.

” ‘You’ve been here before,’ the killer screams at Goldman.

Simpson says when he regains control of himself, “he realizes he is drenched in blood and holding a bloody knife,” Newsweek says.

A few months ago, one of the Directors at work and I were having a discussion about this book, Blink. The premise is that we (as humans) make decisions within seconds, and sometimes microseconds, that are scarily accurate. We then tend to do one of two things:
*Ignore that ‘thin-slice’ (as the author calls it) of information and go on to talk and second guess and make mistakes
*Go with the snap decision because we have either learned to trust our instincts or because our psyche forces us to do so

To me it is a very personal book. I do this every day in a million ways. I’ve never been a fan of meeting about having meetings or debating something endlessly. I’d rather go with my gut and take a chance than to sit and ponder and over think things. In fact, looking back at my life, I would say that some of the stupidest and most tragic things I’ve ever done have been because I didn’t trust my initial thoughts and ended up going over scenarios endlessly in my own crazy brain.
But, at the same time, some of the best things to ever happen to me have happened because there was a real and visceral reaction to a situation that I followed.
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