Videos For A Rainy Afternoon

* A shout out to all Hispanics and their Friends participating in the (nation-wide) May 1st Immigration Rallies: ignore people like girlfriend, here, at your own peril...

"Living in Eden has its advantages. As a marginalized member of a spectator democracy, you choose your own dependencies.
Don't think of it as manufactured consent. Think of it as 'The Candy Everybody Wants'."

[Enforcer State --- Enforcer Taste]

* American Idol participants past and present: have you "PaidYour Dues"? Cause some folks are running "Outta Love".

(Joni Mitchell's two cents)



* ...some candles, some water, some chords...and a woman in the moment




* Imagine Earth singing this...to US.



* Life is a Dance. Make the most of the Space you have.



* Do harmonies get tighter than this?! Does choreography get "badder" than this?! Hold on...no.



* Now I'm "Working Up A Black Sweat" too (if you don't know why the other guy is, send email (multiple nods and nuances in THIS one!.)


* No sweat; the woman's just playin' around.


* Oh, s**t! That's my JAM!
(Grace meet Prince, Prince meet Grace...and I met Prince in NYC in '88 (Ansonia lobby))



* "...what so PROOOOUDLY we hailed, by the twilight's last gleaming..."

10.14

1) Essential Jazz Fusion:



The Best of Weather Report

Tracks: Night Passage, Mysterious Traveller, Birdland




2) Essential Avant-Garde Jazz:



The Shape of Jazz To Come
Ornette Coleman

Track: Lonely Woman (!)

commentary



3) Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy


4) Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home


5) The Silent Speaker --- NASA researchers can hear what you're saying, even when you don't make a sound


6) In case you were still wondering if the pharmaceutical industry was out of control...

[A] “It’s wishful thinking that starting medication when a person already has a blood pressure reading in the 130s will allow them to later go off their medication without consequence,” he says. “Maybe if we started a person on (Atacand) treatment when their reading was still in the 120s, hypertension could be better forestalled or prevented.”
Julius agrees, and hopes he gets funding to perform such a study.
While only Atacand was tested in this trial, Julius says he suspects that other blood pressure drugs would also work.
The study, called the Trial of Preventing Hypertension or TROPHY study, was funded by AstraZeneca, which makes Atacand.
AstraZeneca is a WebMD sponsor.

[B] "A majority of the medical experts who created the "bible" for diagnosing mental illness have undisclosed financial links to drugmakers, says a study out Thursday.
And some panels overseeing disorders that require treatment with prescription drugs, such as schizophrenia and "mood disorders," were 100% filled with experts financially tied to the pharmaceutical industry, says the study published in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics."

[C] ADHD Drugs and Cardiovascular Risk

[D] Panel rejects tough ADHD drug label, bucking other FDA advisers

"Federal health advisers said...that Ritalin and other drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder should not carry strong "black box" warnings about potential cardiovascular and psychiatric risks."

...etc...




7) Quantum Mechanics and God



8) A Contrarian's Christ: Making a case for Jesus as the enemy of religion.

"What parishioner of any denomination wants to hear that the Gospels are 'a deep threat to the institutional church,' since Jesus opposed 'just about every form of religion we know'?"

Bingo.



9) Complete Analysis of Songs by the Beatles



10) Now THIS Is A Rant!