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Daily Dose of Reason -
Psychology & Self-Improvement
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 00:00 |
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 Many people have this idea that the purpose of therapy is to “deal with the past.” I suspect they get this idea from all those silly authors who appear on “Oprah” and elsewhere. The interesting thing is: What does “dealing with the past” actually mean? Perhaps it means talking about the past. I know that I sometimes do this with therapy clients. They tell me about their parents, their siblings, and how things were for them while growing up. We talk about the impact this had on them, up through and including the present.
This takes a session or two at the most. Yet the people
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Read more... [The Past Doesn't Shape You--Your Ideas and Beliefs Do]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Politics & Government
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, 03 January 2012 00:00 |
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 Someone sent me an interesting quote, attributed to Mark Twain: "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on... or by imbeciles who really mean it."
Let's apply this to the presidential candidates for 2012.
First and foremost: Barack Obama. There's no question that this quote could have been written for him. Obama sometimes appears to be the smart man putting us on. But if you’re really listening, you come to understand that he really means it. He rammed ObamaCare through Congress, without popular support before or after. Why? Because when he says he seeks to spread the wealth, he really means it. When he says
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Read more... [The Awful Part is When They Mean It]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Health Care Reform
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Monday, 02 January 2012 00:00 |
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 An irate fan of socialism and socialized medicine/ObamaCare writes in: "You know what, I think it is less profitable for the free market to find a cure. I think keeping the patient sick, but alive, and dependent on the drugs is more profitable. Like we have with AIDS and the antivirals. They want chronic disease, that is not cured but somehow maintained."
Dr. Hurd replies:
You might as well be saying:
"It's more profitable for the free market to deliver packages slowly. The post office -- now there's a government monopoly that works. UPS and FedEx make a profit, and they make sure that packages arrive late and broken. Government management or control works better."
Or you might as well be saying:
"The free market has no incentive to make good computers. And the more
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Read more... [Only the Gloomy Want Socialism in Medicine]
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Daily Dose of Reason -
Society & Culture
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Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00 |
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 The following letter entitled, "Lowe's should not limit inclusiveness" recently appeared in my local paper. My reply to the letter, being sent to the paper, follows.
The following letter was sent to Robert A. Niblock, chairman, president and CEO of Lowe's Companies Inc., Wilkesboro, N.C., with a copy submitted to the Cape Gazette for publication.
We are writing to express our disappointment regarding Lowe's decision to withdraw its sponsorship of the TLC television show "All-American Muslim."
We recognized that Lowe's has
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Read more... [Lowe's, Liberty and Tolerance]
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