The Camp Director

Video clip from The Colbert Report on the increasing use of psychiatric drugs in children, something he dubs ‘psychopharmaparenting’.
While very funny on the surface - it is less funny when you realize this is not much of a parody and closer to reality.
Source: Neuroanthropology via mindhacks

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Recently, Twitter, a micro-blogging platform, has been having more technical issues. As camp season hits high gear for camp directors around the country, I was wondering what it would be like if I could send error messages like twitter does when my system gets overloaded.
Too many incoming phone calls […]

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How fun would it be to provide spoons with spring-loaded handles to all the campers in the dining hall?! Now I don’t run a resident camp so I am never in the market to purchase flatware but when I saw this product I knew camp directors across the country would want them in bulk. […]

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