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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, August 30, 2021Montreal Expos author Jonah Keri pleads guilty to domestic assault charges
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Posted: August 30, 2021 at 10:37 AM | 24 comment(s)
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1. WKRP in Cincinnatus Posted: August 30, 2021 at 01:46 PM (#6037147)Why? Lot's of vociferous Lefties are terrible people. Most of the guys busted in MeToo highly publicized their "progressiveness".
Guess the sarcasm didn't come through on the 'net. Yes, obviously, many are pure-on creeps and from time to time we even get examples around here. Often, there's a bitterness underneath the surface that from time to time will manifest itself outwardly beyond just in words or rhetoric.
Oh, of course -- but not every organization or ideology has denominated itself ethically superior, and denominated non-adherents ethically inferior, in quite the way that organization/ideology has.
Keri was probably the kind of guy to cheer on workplace mobs trying to get people fired for "racism" and the like. Typical projection.
Not every one, but a bunch do.
"Family values" conservatives have shown similar outrages.
This seems like a statement that has a reasonable chance of aging very poorly.
But if it's true, it makes me more curious about his mental health issues. Over the years, I think I've come to realize somewhat how fragile a "normal" brain can be, and perhaps more to the point, I'd be inclined to believe that there's an underlying health reason for a person suddenly going from not-violent to crazed lunatic other than just being an #######.
They have indeed. Both groups are bad. Not sure where that leaves us, beyond "fanaticism is bad and often stems from underlying personal hypocrisies and projections." Morally and ethically hectoring other people as a very way of being, when you know deep down your own terrible foibles, really doesn't sit particularly well with the enlightened and humanistic among us.
The moderate people are just as likely to be evil. The people that throw no stones, and are super nice to everyone, also contain their fair share of evil. The highly charitable as well as the misers. The helping professions as well as the most predatory capitalists. It's the human condition.
Other people's wives, though ...
I went through a bout of depression at 45. I was lucky enough to get out of it and, it seems, it was due to a compilation of shitty life events rather than a mental health issue. It was just a few weeks but the difficulty of those few weeks has given me a lot of empathy for people who suffer from depression. I was pretty useless and the only thing that got me out of bed in the morning to drag myself to work was the realization that if I didn't get out of bed this morning I wasn't gonna get out of bed the next morning either. And it convinced me to never be shy about talking about it and to not be shy about letting friends know when I see the warning signs I might be sliding back there. It was scary ####.
Now, that I'm no longer waking at 5AM to do radio, she often beats me up.
Signed,
A guy who's been on an antidepressant for... (does the math)... 18.75 years.
Honestly, I'm 46 and I have near daily existential crises about how to resolve my scientific training with the fact that I still believe/need to believe/want to believe in life after death. The idea that I'm going to die and not even know that I'm not seeing my children again is soul crushing. And that's just one issue! Forget about anxiety about the complexity of the universe, what it all means, climate change, the rank horribleness of human beings at times... But I have a great job that I love and (almost) can't be fired from, an amazing wife, three healthy and vibrant children, a massive support network, and six years of therapy (2003-2009) that gave me tools that will left a lifetime. I can totally see how someone without all (or even any) of those advantages would start feeling depressed and overwhelmed... once the self-medication to numb the pain starts eroding self-control, the potential for disaster is always there.
As I get older, I think that people should be held responsible for their behaviours and be punished, but it's also possible that it's not something that they ever intended, which is also important. Human life is very, very hard... not everyone is up to the task all of the time.
Adding all the various stretches with & without for me, I'm probably pretty close to 30, which is to say just about half my life (I turn 62 in 2.5 weeks). Geez.
Anybody who ever says, "Liberals/Conservatives/Moderates/Any ideology are nicer than anybody else" is setting themselves up to be deeply heartbroken someday.
We’re all hypocrites, but as long as the right is in thrall to the big lie, and defending violent insurrection, the left wins the moral high ground by forfeit.
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