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