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Adorable cleft-lipped boy adopts a cleft puppy—instant love.

September 12, 2020 By Karl 1 Comment

Cleft lip boy and dog.

Amid the 4 Ps confronting us Californians —pandemic, poverty,  protests, and pyrotechnics* — comes a heartwarming story from Sydney Page at The Washington Post. Just what I needed, as a fellow cleft-affected person, to forget about the "plagues" which are  depressing us in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've had to keep indoors (no outdoor masked activity) for twenty-something straight "unhealthy" Spare the Air days due to wildfires. Then a man who has a 2-year-old with a cleft … [Read more...]

Rory Gilmore and Janie Junebug love books and share ’em.

February 8, 2020 By Karl Leave a Comment

Many of you remember The Gilmore Girls popular show which aired 2000- 2007. It created a book club for people to read all of the 339 books referenced on the show, esp by Rory Gilmore who loved reading books. She also loved the smell of books. Rory Gilmore loves books. Rory   taught us   important things that are now a part of many people's everyday life. First - always take a book with you. This tip has saved countless of us from complete boredom. Whether we're meeting up with a friend … [Read more...]

Cleft Joaquin Phoenix strikes again – Joker.

October 6, 2019 By Karl Leave a Comment

Cleft Joaquin Phoenix -before and after makeup.

Evil teaches us to livE: — this anadrome** comes to mind when I think of cleft Joaquin Phoenix — the fictional miserable life of Batman's Joker generates evil — the real "miserable life" of Phoenix generates great art about evil and good. What comes to mind re the movie Joker is less relevant: another  star vehicle for Phoenix the biggest-grossing October launch ever, $90 million in first 2 days a "scary movie" with tons of violence that's forced many theaters to hire cops … [Read more...]

How to boost the CLEFT HEART book and reap rewards.

December 19, 2018 By Karl Leave a Comment

Book cover of Cleft Heart: Chasing Normal

Thought some of you Cleft Heart book fans might get a kick out of seeing a photo (top right of the collage below) of politicians Pelosi and Schumer under an umbrella in D.C, back in the day. Actually, it's my sister Barbara and me in front of the U.S. Capitol after my dad mustered out of the military as a journalist in Washington, D.C. for the Navy's All Hands magazine. My loving sis  wrote last year about growing up with a brother with clefts here and here. She wanted to add to the book I'd … [Read more...]

Male privilege, sex, and the fall of a cleft icon.

December 17, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Male privilege in action? Rep Franks in blue shirt, waving. Scar from cleft on upper lip.

An op ed piece in Friday's Washington Post helped make up my mind re former congressman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.). The op ed author described a classic case of male privilege in action. The writer Melissa Richmond* is currently vice president of Running Start, an organization that encourages women to run for political office.   Richmond wrote that she thought she'd lost out on a career in politics after an encounter with Rep. Franks eight years ago. In her own words: I’ve always been proud … [Read more...]

How to be a CLEFT HEART book booster and reap rewards.

December 9, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Book cover of Cleft Heart: Chasing Normal

Thought some of you Cleft Heart book fans might get a kick out of seeing a photo (top right of the collage below) of politicians Pelosi and Schumer under an umbrella in D.C, back in the day. Actually, it's my sister Barbara and me in front of the U.S. Capitol after my dad mustered out of the military as a journalist in Washington, D.C. for the Navy's All Hands magazine. My loving sis  wrote last year about growing up with a brother with clefts here and here. She wanted to add to the book I'd … [Read more...]

My brother’s clefts: When birth defects aren’t defects-Compete & Cooperate

August 3, 2017 By Karl Leave a Comment

Welcoming baby Steven—w/o birth defects.

A Disability, or Not? By Barbara Schonborn I didn’t think my brother Karl had birth defects. Nor did I think his cleft lip and cleft palate were disabilities. When we were children, Karl was just my competitor or my buddy. Brother with no birth defects completes the family. Steven, my second brother, was born when our family lived next door to our grandparents Schonborn in a rural neighborhood of Puyallup, Washington. Steven had no birth defects. His nose and mouth were normal, and he … [Read more...]

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  • Insanity in court cases: Test, Fakery – Part I
  • Seven Psychopaths – McDonagh’s comedic film
  • Again, Baldwin and Armorer named in ‘Rust’ legal case.
  • Visual-Snow Effects/Mental Illness-Defenses for Kohberger?

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Voskerichian, among Berkowitz's murder victims. He faked insanity.

Insanity in the courtroom: detecting Fakery – Part II

This blog is a continuation of last month's blog about insanity in court cases.A number of years ago, a New York courtroom tried  Pedro Hernandez for the murder of Etan Patz who was one of the first missing children to be featured on a milk carton.  The defendant said at one point that he put Etan … [Read More...]

passed insanity test.

Insanity in court cases: Test, Fakery – Part I

As I worked on the footnotes for my soon-to-published Privileged Killers, I wondered how much the insanity test had changed recently. The case I write about in my book, one among a few homicides, showed how a killer got off easy using a mental illness defense. So, insanity is on my mind. In fact, I … [Read More...]

Seven Psychopaths – McDonagh’s comedic film

This website  covers an important term used by most of us at one time or other: psychopath. Unlike other blogs of mine here and here, this post delves into a comedic take on the term and subject of psychopathy. So, here without further ado or comment is a recent movie review by Brian … [Read More...]

Halyna Hutchins. New people named in 'Rust' legal case.  

Again, Baldwin and Armorer named in ‘Rust’ legal case.

I recently posted my skepticism about whether justice would be served in the settlement Alec Baldwin made with Halyna Hutchins husband and son. The deal, valid in its provision for support of her son, seemed odd since it also allow Baldwin and other financiers to resume shooting of 'Rust."Apparently … [Read More...]

Kohberger and Victims

Visual-Snow Effects/Mental Illness-Defenses for Kohberger?

MENTAL HEALTH – DEFENSES FOR KOHBERGER? "The ringing in my ears and the fuzz in my vision is simply all of the demons in my head mocking me " – statement attributed to the Idaho multicide suspect, Bryan Kohberger.   Allegedly visual snow plus tinnitus (ringing in the ears from an … [Read More...]

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