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thedailywhat:

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch The Very Pit Of Hell Out Of This of the Day: Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) speaks out in favor of same-sex marriage ahead of today’s failed vote in the New York Senate.

If, after viewing this seven-minute video, you are still of the opinion that tax-paying Americans should be denied the right to enter into a loving marriage with the partner of their choice regardless of gender, kindly exit this country.

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Savino also reps part of Brooklyn; Senator Andrew Lanza (R - SI) voted against.

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Sarah Chalke

hunsonisgroovy:

The Killers - Happy Birthday Guadalupe

The Killers raise awareness of AID (RED) for World Aids Day. It is also their annual Christmas track. 

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a long december | counting crows

hunsonisgroovy:

New Killers Video - “Happy Birthday Guadalupe”

psychotherapy:

The great promise of neuroscience at the end of the last century was that it would revolutionize the treatment of psychiatric problems. But the first real application of advanced brain science is not novel at all. It is a precise, sophisticated version of an old and controversial approach: psychosurgery, in which doctors operate directly on the brain.

In the last decade or so, more than 500 people have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, Tourette’s syndrome, even obesity, most as a part of medical studies. The results have been encouraging, and this year, for the first time since frontal lobotomy fell into disrepute in the 1950s, the Food and Drug Administration approved one of the surgical techniques for some cases of O.C.D.

While no more than a few thousand people are impaired enough to meet the strict criteria for the surgery right now, millions more suffering from an array of severe conditions, from depression to obesity, could seek such operations as the techniques become less experimental…

psychotherapy:

Nagging doubts, compulsions, concerns of contamination, obsessive hoarding: the symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder are numerous and varied. What is it like to live this way? How does one maintain a normal life? Six men and women speak about their battles with this disorder.

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wow, mr. Cat. You’re awfully hostile, aren’t you?

hostile, but so true. When my cat does it, we call it the irritated tail twitch.

 That about sums it up, thank you Mr.Cat.

inothernews:

AIDS and HIV remain epidemic throughout the world.  Knowing your status and knowing your partner’s status helps: get tested, and practice safe sex.

Find out more information here and here.