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http://www.businessinsider.com/this-story-about-a-startup-ceo-who-just-got-canned-months-after-turning-down-100-million-will-make-your-stomach-turn-2013-2

Photo-sharing app Instagram had just been acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, and Viddy – often called the Instagram-for-Video – had about 30 million monthly users.
The company was so hot that O'Brien was reportedly approached by Twitter, which wanted to buy the company for ~$100 million.
O'Brien turned down the money.

Interesting. And it's guaranteed to create crazy theories in all directions too.

Truthers, Birthers, now Burners.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/lapd-no-body-found-in-burned-cabin

They've already begun.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21437322

Looks like it's over, unless it's the wrong guy again.

Police say they have found charred remains in the rubble of a burnt-down cabin where a murder suspect had been hiding.

Ex-policeman Christopher Dorner, accused of killing three people, was thought to have barricaded himself in and exchanged fire with police.

A single gunshot was later heard inside the building, which then began to burn.

Forensic tests are to be carried out to determine if the remains are those of Mr Dorner.

Early ADHD treatments were around the 60's I think, but it only became the brand of choice much later.

ODD was part of the stretching of what could be considered a disorder. Numerous ailments in DSM 4 share similar(admittedly minor mostly) symptoms to the point you'd think it was cut/paste.

ODD, if I recall correctly was pretty much opening the door to the early Ritalin style drugs. I'll try and dig out some stuff on this, I'm sure i've got something.

The Good Reverend Roger and 3 other assholes Like this display of butthurt proto-right wing rage.

Fucking wonderful. 5 Stars.

Just had a quick skim, this stood out:

Particularly upsetting for Frances is the DSM-5's pathologizing of normal human grief. On January 7, 2013 in "Last Plea To DSM-5: Save Grief From the Drug Companies," Frances writes, "Making grief a mental disorder will be a bonanza for drug companies, but a disaster for grievers. The decision is also self-destructive for DSM-5 and further undermines the credibility of the APA. Psychiatry should not be mislabeling the normal."

I was aware the various DSM editions had, shall we say, problems? Issues such as re-classifying "disorders" or bringing various ailments under another banner caused a lot of treatment plan problems for some.

I'll be giving this a good read tomorrow, thanks!

Same here really. Even venerable old zen masters are just like the rest of humanity. Not worth the skin covering the skeleton.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/sheriff-joe-arpaio-to-release-report-on-bungled-investigations-on-sex-crime-cases

PHOENIX - Maricopa County Sheriff's Office supervisors and deputies directly involved in the mishandling of hundreds of sex crimes cases will not be disciplined, despite a 2011 recommendation to suspend several employees.
"If there were any victims out there, I apologize to those victims," Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in a December 2011 news conference. "Sometimes in a large law enforcement agency, these sort of situations occur."
According to letters dated February 11, 2013 and sent to various MCSO employees, the failure by MCSO to properly investigate hundreds of sex crimes cases – most of which involved children – is the result of a "systemic problem" that could not be solved by disciplining just a "few individuals."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/world/asia/zen-buddhists-roiled-by-accusations-against-teacher.html?_hp&_r=3&

Since arriving in Los Angeles from Japan in 1962, the Buddhist teacher Joshu Sasaki, who is 105 years old, has taught thousands of Americans at his two Zen centers in the area and one in New Mexico. He has influenced thousands more enlightenment seekers through a chain of some 30 affiliated Zen centers from the Puget Sound to Princeton to Berlin. And he is known as a Buddhist teacher of Leonard Cohen, the poet and songwriter.

Mr. Sasaki has also, according to an investigation by an independent council of Buddhist leaders, released in January, groped and sexually harassed female students for decades, taking advantage of their loyalty to a famously charismatic roshi, or master.

Yup.

When the pope resigns is he no longer infallible?

The new "Die hard" is out soon. Think he's seen a few too many trailers.

Judge Death is my reading

I'm inclined to think there's something in it, finding it between the crazy is another matter.

Time to break out the 

Shit, I was looking for popcorn, but this is just as likely I guess.