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...with the problems when my mother, who was going through a divorce, was making time to Candid Camera me. Nevertheless, in the interest of self-exploration and to avoid writing an actual science story for this mental-health issue, I decided to be analyzed by Dr. Phil. Searching for problems to work on, I considered talking to him about not having got a haircut for 11 months in an effort to disguise the fact that I'm going bald. But I figured Dr. Phil might not be the best person to bring that up with...
...called my mom, who is a big Dr. Phil fan, and asked her what's wrong with me. "Do you have to come up with just one issue?" she asked. I was already regretting this phone call. "One of the issues is your avoidance of conflict. You refuse to fight. You walk away. It would be interesting to see where that came from," she said. I suggested that it possibly came from having a therapist mom. Then she said something else that I said I agreed with, but sort of missed since I was typing an e-mail...
...Phil, however, thought my mom was completely wrong. "I've been married coming up on 28 years now, and Robin and I never fight. I absolutely hate conflict and confrontation," he said. "The problem is, when you don't argue, you miss makeup sex. And that's absolutely the best sex in the whole world." Then I got kind of grossed out thinking about my mom. "Also, right before Valentine's Day or Christmas, a good fight can save you several hundred dollars," Dr. Phil continued. Good advice. You don't get to put "Dr." in front of your name...
...Phil also thought my mom was wrong about the way I express myself when I'm upset: I kind of mope and wait for people to notice instead of just telling them how I feel with words like "sharing," "intimacy," "relationship" and "makeup sex." Further refuting my mom, Dr. Phil said, "One of my favorite songs is by Ronan Keating. He says, 'You say the most when you say nothing at all.'" I wish Dr. Phil had been around to argue with my mom for me when...
...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...