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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Climate Craze

(Fox News) - Global warming, it seems, can not only make you uncomfortable, it can apparently make you crazy. The Australian Herald Sun reports that a pair of psychiatrists there have detected what they say is the first case of "climate change delusion."

Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of the Royal Children's Hospital write in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry that a 17-year-old man was referred to the hospital after suffering from depression for eight months.

They say the patient "developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies," and that he had what they called "visions of apocalyptic events."

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