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Palin is INNOCENT!!!
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Anonymous
Not a Palin supporter but do love the irony of your redundant reply. |
Anonymous
Being redundant is not a "disorder" found in the DSM. |
Anonymous
| Ah, but "DSM Manual" is. |
Anonymous
huh? Now THIS response is definitely coming from a Republican. |
Anonymous
| Or a pedant. |
Anonymous
Guilty! |
Anonymous
ahhh - good to know that you like to brag about your knowledge . . . According to the DSM, you're likely to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, a disorder affecting may Republicans. |
Anonymous
15:59 again. Oh, c'mon, there are Democratic pedants! (I spent lots of time in graduate school with them....sigh...) 
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Anonymous
Nope, I'm just a Democrat and a psychologist who just enjoyed the irony of someone posting an anti-Palin crack by referring to the "DSM Manual." It's almost as good as "HIV virus." As for NPD, I do a lot of research on personality disorders and I can tell you there's no literature suggesting that Republicans have higher rates of it. If you know anything at all about personality disorder prevalence data, you must have been joking. And as for myself personally, I come closest to a diagnosis of OCD or OCPD, but I try to work on it. Unfortunately, graduate school and the academic life tend to reinforce OC traits in a big way. Not healthy, that's for sure. 
And the other poster is right: Pedantry is probably evenly distributed across parties. 
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Anonymous
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Pedant here. 15:59/16:44: You know most faculty are Democrats. And pedantic too. The pedantic grad students are just as bad, though!
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Anonymous
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Yes, graduate school sucks up all the perfectionists and then they have a tough time finishing their dissertations -- one reason why it took me 9 years to finish!
From a recovering perfectionist! |
Anonymous
I nominate myself as a case in point. And to prove my pedantry I'll argue that "guilty" is a self-deprecatory confession, not bragging. 
As to being Democratic, Gobama!!! |
Anonymous
| Guilty or innocent--soon, she'll be Alaska's problem again. I'm counting the minutes. |
Anonymous
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah Hey hey GOOD-BYE!
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Anonymous
Psychologist - found this other posting re: Obama . . . thoughts? Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands it and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, nearest and dearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Joe Stalin, Saddam, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong IL , and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers and followers. They created a personality cult around themselves, and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirer's souls, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. Those men gave their followers hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, they invariably brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. |