A Mother's Love - No wonder Dr. Laura has to be mean to everyone--apparently, she never got the love she needed from her own mother, now dead and decomposed. As a casual lunchtime-commute listener of the radio program, I do have to say that Laura's gotten more bitter and even less helpful over the years. Maybe it's animosity built up over the fact that Dr. Phil has succeeded where she failed: criticizing people about their behaviors (or "telling it like it is" in Phil-parlance).