Loose Threads

• More on Baltimore, MD, or what The Wire left out.  The Rude Pundit does not get rude here.
• Paul Bibeau sends Trump tweets with .gifs of accidents (which vanish when I click 'em, so y'know, use caution).
• Popehat:

  Depression and anxiety are doubly pernicious. They don't just rob you of your ability to process life's challenges. They rob you of the ability to imagine things getting better — they rob you of hope. When well-meaning people try to help, they often address the wrong problem. "Your relationship will work out if you just talk," or "I'm sure your boss doesn't actually hate you," or "things will look up and you'll find another job" may all be true, and may all be good advice. But they don't address the heart of mental illness. A depressed or anxious person isn't just burdened with life's routine problems. They're burdened with being unable to think about them without sheer misery, and being unable to conceive of an end to that misery continuing, endlessly, in response to one problem after another. Solving the problems, one by one, doesn't solve the misery.

  Why it is important to discuss mental illness.