I think it was Andy Warhol who suggested that we’ll all get our 15 minutes of fame.  And a recent letter to the L.A. Times suggested that we “bloggers” finally have an outlet to feel like we’re some kinda writers – that we really have something to say to the rest of our species: that […]

So where was I…I seem to remember a diatribe regarding ADHD – but perhaps because I have each-and-every symptom of the “disease” – I won’t be able to hook back into my earlier train-of-thought (Hansel and Gretel I need you now!).  But wait!  The new ADHD studies – which I mentioned in last week’s “Doctor’s

I wanted to discuss Ahmadinejad corroborating my contention that the American Dollar is worthless, (See ‘Closing in’) but the article entitled: “ADHD may be temporary, study suggests”; in November 13th’s L.A. Times (I love my Times) brought me back to what prompted me to start writing in the first place: mental disease as a socio-political

It gets progressively more difficult to get back to those subjects that are close to my heart — when so much of what I prophesied seems to be revealing itself in-the-here-and-now.  I wanted to write about my sons’ poor treatment by local soccer referees (I can only guess because these refs hate me [my sons

I became quite incensed over recent media reports regarding autism and the rising number of incidences being reported around the country.  This family-systems therapist saw a whole different kind of childhood autism in the mid-70s – and whatever this “designer disease” we’ve got going now – that serves as a vehicle for the pharmaceutical companies

I’ve been wanting to write about Arthur Lee and LOVE for quite sometime now.  Ever since Big Steve C turned me on, to what I believe, was the musical nexus for progressive music: from all the jazz, blues, folk and early rock-and-roll that came before – to EVERYTHING that came after.  Big Steve actually tried

I wanted to follow-up my inaugural web posting with more explanation as to how a classroom observation came to become a new disease that would be treated by pharmaceuticals influencing the serotonin system – but after reading James Ricci’s 10/22/07 L.A. Times article, “Father finishing book by son killed in Iraq” – I couldn’t delve

I told my girlfriend that if I could just find that original article on A.D.D. – that I have been disparaging for years – because it started off a new disease and accompanying cottage industries – that I could finally begin committing my thoughts to paper.  I would be validated: people couldn’t accuse me of