Author: Zero Ponsdorf

I dunno if I would want to revisit the various approaches I’ve dealt with, but this idea is intriguing.

Sarah White, who recently expanded her Naked Therapy practice, Sarah White Therapy (http://sarahwhitetherapy.com), to include three new Naked Therapists-in-Training, has offered Anthony Weiner one free Naked Therapy session to help him begin addressing his problems. As Ms. White told Mr. Weiner, the methods of Naked Therapy are particularly suited to help him overcome what she calls “the uncontrollable acts of arousal frenzy.”

Yeah, that would help him?

I thought I’d seen pretty much everything, but this makes me feel young again. If  I could just figure out where to sign up I’d provide a log for you folks.

Were Mr. Weiner to enter Naked Therapy^TM with Ms. White, she asserts, the two would conduct therapy together that would involve many of the same techniques as traditional therapy, but the sessions would also involve Ms. White helping Mr. Weiner discuss his experiences while in a state of arousal so that he can begin to gain insight into the thoughts, feelings and choices he has under the influence of his arousal brain. How would she help him access his arousal brain? “For some clients it’s removing my clothes, for others it’s talking sexually or about sexual issues with them, and for others it’s simply listening to and being supportive of their desires and concerns,” says Ms. White.

The VA put me into several kinds of therapy, but I don’t think this was offered. Anger management made me angry, etc.

Hey Jonn, can you make this part of our health care package?

Henry (Peace With Honor) Kissinger Has weighed in on Afghanistan. Nixon actually said that, but it was Kissinger who sold it.

Honestly,  I thought Henry was dead, but?

The American role in Afghanistan is drawing to a close in a manner paralleling the pattern of three other inconclusive wars since the Allied victory in World War II: a wide consensus in entering them, and growing disillusionment as the war drags on, shading into an intense national search for an exit strategy with the emphasis on exit rather than strategy.

His OpEd piece actually makes some sense, but I have trouble accepting the source. YMMV

Let’s see, the current anti-war activists are a paltry few compared to back then, and more like clowns and yet he offers:

After America’s withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan and the constraint to our strategic reach produced by the revolution in Egypt, a new definition of American leadership and America’s national interest is inescapable. A sustainable regional settlement in Afghanistan would be a worthy start.

Yeah, Henry; that notion actually has a track record of note.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Santayana

Henry helped write a chapter or two, yet…

By now everyone but Joey knows this… Palin was right about Paul Revere.

I figure my last post was really too broad to simply add this tidbit. Plus Don is yet another West Virginian – A carpet bagger like some others, but he does live here.

I dunno if I’ll support Palin in 2012, and I dunno if she’s the best choice, but this faux pas on the part of our media monkeys will be back to haunt them if she does.

The STS – Space Shuttle has one more mission, and then retires to the semi-oblivion of being a museum relic.

I worked at the NASA Tracking Station Koke’e, Kauai, Hawaii during first 8 or 9 Shuttle missions. The site has since morphed into something quite different.

When I first went to work there (circa 1980) we tracked scientific satellites. Earlier the station had participated in manned space flight up to, and including, the moon missions. Between tracking chores we frequently swung the dish on the moon, locking up on experiments left behind. Some of the folks there had been involved since the first US manned space flight. This is important because most there had never seen a launch.

Then, just a bit over 30 years ago we supported STS-1. The elders were excited. They NOW had live coverage from Honolulu. Coverage from satellites they’d helped launch. We were all pumped, perhaps the elders more than us newbies.

During my tenure I had the pleasure of drinking a beer or three with some of the astronauts during ‘meet and greets’ organized by NASA. In particular I got to chat with Ellison Onizuka, who was lost on the Challenger.

Now with a single manned launch the US is leaving behind an era of wonder. Man will continue to go into space, atop Russian rockets, and perhaps private spaceships, but there will be few USA insignias to cheer on to the next achievements.

It saddens me some.