Dr. Laura

[ghostrunner]

I could never say it better than Martin Sheen did on "West Wing."

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The show had it's good points, but for me this is one reason among many I didn't like the West Wing. "I'm the leader of the free world, but let me stop for a minute to go off on this AM radio host in front of everyone." He may as well be high-fiving the crowd while he's talking with his other thumb hitched in his belt buckle.

[Radbird]

I could never say it better than Martin Sheen did on "West Wing."

That was classic.

[omaha_red]

she was in omaha last year and people were actually outside on the
streets protesting her..

[KyCardinalFan]

She calls herself Dr. Laura. But, according to the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners, Nobody is allowed to use 'Doctor' unless they are a medical doctor or...a professor in the psychological field with a clinical license.

Schlessinger has a PhD, but it isn't in psychology --- it's in physiology. Her doctorate was entitled Effects of Insulin on 3-0 Methylglucose Transport in Isolated Rat Adipocytes. According to one of her professors, she spent most of her doctoral training time "pulling fat pads off rat testicles."

I asked a friend of mine who works in the field what "Methylglucose Transport" is all about. He said,

It's the standard, routine, crushingly dull thing done back in the days before DNA. Physiology is the term used for lower-level biochemistry.

However, he concluded,

it does not sound like an obvious portal into psychology, even of the broadcast variety.

If you think of Dr. Laura is an expert, offering true psychological insight, forget it. She's an expert motivational entertainer, right up there with all the other McCluhanesque drummers. Her medium is the harsh, raspy voice of AM radio. With her terse comments, her impatience with her "clients," her famous rants --- she's perfect for the job of being the National Nag.

I would also suggest that we have to love Dr. Laura not only for being so tacky, but also for having posed au naturel for an old sweetie. There are those of us out here who would give a pretty penny to having such a shrink; one with the chutzpah to strip down to nothing more than skin and bone for her honey's camera --- calling him "Your Tottle Bug" all the while.

http://www.ralphmag.org/dr-lauraZA.html

[lukethedrifter]

Apparently she's quite a mother as well.

Deryk Schlessinger's Web site indicated the 21-year-old soldier is stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where, the site's author writes, "godless crazy people like me," have become "a generation of apathetic killers." The site indicated Schlessinger's team has survived numerous mortar, rocket and roadside bomb attacks. It also included several graphic cartoons. In one of the stick drawings, a top-hatted man laughs as he rapes a bound and bleeding woman in front of her family. In another depiction, a man forces a boy to perform oral sex at knifepoint as the child's mother pleads for her son's life

[Popeye_Card]

Physiology is the term used for lower-level biochemistry.

That's not really true. Physiology is a wide field. Biochemistry is part of that field. Physiology is a broad term for the study of how the body operates.

But yes, it really has no ties to psychology whatsoever, unless she spouted off about why synapses fire in our brains.

[Molly]

I've never heard of her
Sounds like I'm not missing much.

[Spider John]

She's on Larry King right now and her 1950's righteousness makes me want to poke my eyes out! Not to mention her complete endorsement of female subserviance.

She has naked pics on the internet.

A corner of the universe I have yet to explore.

Sure you haven't. Bet you didn't even know you could find naked pics on the internet.

[sighyoung]

She's on Larry King right now and her 1950's righteousness makes me want to poke my eyes out! Not to mention her complete endorsement of female subserviance.

She has naked pics on the internet.

A corner of the universe I have yet to explore.

Sure you haven't. Bet you didn't even know you could find naked pics on the internet.

That's not true. Of course I knew about pictures of molerats on the internet.

Pssst. . . where are they?