PHOTO: "Come on Honey, let's go shopping for a new Couch. The old one has too many of Bristol's Love Stains on it." [Sara Palin]Retrieved by Pat Darnell
With so much at stake members of the MooPig Staffers Club in St Paul don't know whether to look up or look down. "We have a triad of choices to make in our journalistic observations," says Onob Orp, Chief Desk Editor, MooPig Minneapolis.
"You see, we still have to find out if user generated news is true, right?" continues Orp. "If it is a UFO story, we look up all day? and if it's a archaeology story, we have to look down all the way to below the surface? But today this couch story has us stumped."
MooPig International has faced conundrums before. We even subscribe to AOL, because well we were one of the first to subscribe to its email. It brings a solemn vow to our audience that even on "No News
Days" we will continue to look up or down, even search AOL archives, or all around for the truth be told.But today's top story requires MooPig to get up close and personal, and look in your couches.
But First lets see the line ups --
user Submitted news as it rakes in the hits
* Jon Stewart Gets Serious With Jim Cramer | Politicususa
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* Judge: Gay student club can't be banned
* No Appraisal Refinance Coming?
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* Church Murder Suspect Had 'Death Day'
* Octuplets' Mom May Get New Home
* Secret Message in Lincoln Watch Found
* Bristol Palin, Fiance Break Up
* Simpson Breaks Out the Dukes Again
Blog Chatter
1. Afghanistan
2. Anna Nicole Smith
3. Climate Change
4. Cuba
5. Foreclosure
6. Iran Sanctions
7. Madoff
8. NATO
9. Space Junk
10. Spending Bill
Blogging Sluggers:
* Economists Give Obama Low Marks
* Obama Says US May Reach Out to Taliban
* Obama's First 50 Days a Wild Ride
* Obama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Policy
* Bristol Palin, Fiance Break Up
* OPYGUMP on Hulkamania Runs Wild on Linda's Lawyer
* SoCalsBeth on Barbara Bush Leaves Hospital
* shukquan on Cabbie Guilty of Assaulting Passengers
* Sdave7596 on Is Rihanna Hurting Covergirl Sales?
* Sdave7596 on Missing Girl's Dad Marries Teenager
But the biggest story today is -- A Phobia Of The Couch: A Buyer's Remorse Story
Used Couch Comes with Stowaway Cat | AP | Animal News, National News
SPOKANE, Wash. (March 13) - The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.
Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a small hole on the underside.
Facing Your Phobias | Love * On the Couch with Dr. Gail Saltz
Ten percent of people suffer from some sort of phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear that can cause anxiety and borderline panic. The most common phobias are towards animals like dogs, cats or spiders. Many phobias tend to develop at a young age, but they can often set in later in life and are called “situational phobias.”
Sure enough, Bob Killion of Spokane showed up to claim the cat on Thursday after an acquaintance alerted him to a TV story about it. Killion had donated a couch on Feb. 19, and his 9-year-old cat, Callie, disappeared at about the same time.
References:
Kulish, N. (1996). A Phobia Of The Couch: A Clinical Study Of Psychoanalytic Process.. Psychoanal Q., 65:465-494.(1996). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 65:465-494
Conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis and the differences between the two have been the subject of discussion and controversy in recent years. The theoretical and technical questions that have been raised suffer from the lack of detailed clinical accounts that might help to elucidate the processes involved. The author presents a case of a woman whose refusal to use the couch for three years became a central organizing resistance and took on the structure of a phobia. It is argued that the case, rather than a conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis, was one of psychoanalysis from the beginning, with the conflicts about the couch analyzed as are any other resistances. [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.]
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