Can you stand to hear even more news about gravity-complicit suicides at the golden gate bridge? An editorial in last week's Chron that argued in favor of an anti-jumping barricade has gotten folks talking. Bay Area Transportation News stirred things up by saying that a barrier would "deface" the bridge - as if the alternative, bodies plummeting to their death, is an attractive feature. Since local psychiatrists seem to be pretty gung-ho about the whole barrier idea, we asked our friendly neighborhood expert, Dr. Gordon Giles, for comment - he was quick to point out that crisis intervention isn't his specialty, but he the director of neurobehavioral sciences for northern California's largest provider of mental health beds, which means that he knows more about broken brains than we ever will, and that's good enough for us.

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