News24.com | ANC failing to lead: The crisis of the ruling coalition is a crisis ...

Edit News24 14 Oct 2016
The ANC is well aware of its faults and what exactly to do, however the posture of our leaders is that of narcissism and awaiting Armageddon with the hope that some will survive, writes Gugu Ndima ... ....

Our children are paying a high price for society’s vision of success

Edit The Guardian 14 Oct 2016
Individual limitations are no longer acknowledged and failure is not an option. No wonder there are frightening levels of mental illness among young people. Yet another report has been published showing frightening levels of mental illness among children and young people in England. The figure now stands at about a quarter of a million ... I can’t keep my head in the sand any longer ... Competitive narcissism runs rampant ... @timlottwriter. ....

Krauthammer: It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk that disqualifies Trump

Edit The Mercury News 14 Oct 2016
WASHINGTON — The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump’s campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring an act of God (a medical calamity) or of Putin (a cosmically incriminating WikiLeak) ... It should have been a surprise to no one ... habitual mendacity, pathological narcissism, profound ignorance and an astonishing dearth of basic human empathy ... ....

Robinson: Trump may be more than just a pig

Edit The Mercury News 14 Oct 2016
Natasha Stoynoff is an experienced journalist with six books to her credit, and her story is similar to those told by others. A second woman says she, too, was groped by Trump at the Florida estate ... Trump denies it all ... It’s like a magnet ... His narcissism leads him to blame everyone else for his predicament — the women who alleged the assaults, the news media that seek to hold him accountable, the Republicans scrambling for the lifeboats....

Charles Krauthammer: It's not the 'locker room' talk. It's the 'Lock her up' talk.

Edit The Oklahoman 14 Oct 2016
WASHINGTON — The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump's campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring an act of God (a medical calamity) or of Putin (a cosmically incriminating WikiLeak) ... It should have been a surprise to no one ... habitual mendacity, pathological narcissism, profound ignorance and an astonishing dearth of basic human empathy....

After the hipster: are you a createenager or a hugger mugger? Let's hope not

Edit The Guardian 14 Oct 2016
As BBC4 kills the hipster stone dead with a documentary that’s a decade late, we offer the commissioners some tribes to investigate for 2026 – from protein shake addicts to self-admiring members of the alt right ... Read more ... The Createenager ... But the new wave of radicalism, with its intricate rebuttal of the “narratives” of the MSM (mainstream media to you sheeple), has afforded a sexier outlet for that style of intellectual narcissism. ....

Camille Grammer Says Narcissists Can Be Difficult: Is She Referring To ‘RHOBH’ Co-Stars?

Edit Inquisitr 14 Oct 2016
Camille Grammer has been keeping a low profile for the past couple of years, as she’s been dealing with some personal issues. A few years ago, Camille was diagnosed with cancer and she was learning that her ex-husband wanted nothing to do with their children, which was heartbreaking ...Jezebel (@Jezebel) October 13, 2016 ... But in her tweet, Camille also points to the narcissism in this Presidential election currently happening....

Donald Trump isn’t just a pig; he seems to be a sexual predator

Edit Denver Post 14 Oct 2016
Julie Jacobson, The Associated Press. Jessica Leeds enters her apartment building on Wednesday in New York ... By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group ... A second woman says she, too, was groped by Trump at the Florida estate ... His narcissism leads him to blame everyone else for his predicament — the women who alleged the assaults, the news media that seek to hold him accountable, the Republicans scrambling for the lifeboats ... ....

Enough is enough: the 2016 election is now a referendum on male entitlement

Edit The Guardian 14 Oct 2016
“This is not about politics ...It’s about right and wrong ... “The boasts about not doing homework, the habit of blaming others when things go wrong, the penchant for exaggerating everything into the best ever, the braggadocio to mask insecurity about size of hands or genitals, the biting put-downs of others, the laziness, the self-absorption, the narcissism, the lack of empathy – and the immaturity that reduces a woman to her breasts.” ... ....

Tinder introduces algorithm to determine your hottest photo

Edit The Independent 13 Oct 2016
Until now, Tinder users have had to rely on good old-fashioned narcissism to try and determine which photo they look best in, but now it can be determined empirically, boosting their chances of finding matches ...It's simple ... In testing, users saw up to a 12% increase in matches ... Tinder ....

Maureen Dowd: Trump won't answer my calls anymore

Edit The Oklahoman 13 Oct 2016
Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has spent much of her career roiling Washington with her rapier take on politicians of both parties ... "I love the human element in the stories. I am as far as you can get from Nate Silver, let's tote up the numbers, big data" journalism, Dowd said ... "He doesn't know he's a clinical narcissist, which is maybe one of the symptoms of clinical narcissism." ... ....

Trump’s ‘Lock her up’ talk breaches boundaries of democracy: Charles Krauthammer

Edit LA Daily News 13 Oct 2016
The second presidential debate — bloody, muddy and raucous — was just enough to save Donald Trump’s campaign from extinction, but not enough to restore his chances of winning, barring an act of God (a medical calamity) or of Putin (a cosmically incriminating WikiLeak) ... habitual mendacity, pathological narcissism, profound ignorance and an astonishing dearth of basic human empathy ... The niceties must be observed....

No, Enjoying A Gin And Tonic Doesn’t Mean You’re A Psychopath

Edit IFL Science 13 Oct 2016
I was looking at Facebook one evening last week when my attention was captured by the headline “Gin lovers are all massive psychopaths, according to experts” – a somewhat disconcerting thing to read as I sipped the gin and tonic I had in my hand at the time ... The short story is, it hasn’t. I determined this reasonably efficiently ... Booze news ... psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism – collectively known as the “” ... The bitter truth ... ....
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