Great read from the Atlantic

Hershfield suffered a grand mal seizure—the type most people imagine when they think about seizures. He was driven to the emergency room, thrashing and writhing like a 6-feet-4-inch fish pulled out of the water. Concerned doctors at the UCLA Medical Center rushed him into an MRI machine, and, this being the late 1980s, wondered whether he might have pricked himself with a needle, and contracted AIDS. Instead, the scan revealed that his blackouts where actually a swarm of small strokes, and his illness was diagnosed as antiphospholipid syndrome. Hershfield’s immune system was mistakenly creating antibodies that made his blood more likely to clot. Those clots, if they entered his bloodstream and brain, could kill him at any moment.

Doctors prescribed blood-thinning medication and forced Hershfield to quit driving, but he was still fit to practice medicine. Like many survivors of stroke, his speech became slurred and he sometimes stuttered. His personality also seemed to change. He suddenly became obsessed with reading and writing poetry. Soon, Hershfield’s friends noticed another unusual side effect: He couldn’t stop speaking in rhyme. He finished everyday sentences with rhyming couplets, like “Now I have to ride the bus, it’s enough to make me cuss.” And curiously, whenever he rhymed, his speech impediments disappeared.
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“He was tight,” the rapper Myka 9 told me, while he smoked in an alleyway before a performance in Culver City. “He had a little bit of an angular approach. He had flows, he had good lines that were thought out, I remember a couple punchlines that came off pretty cool.” Myka 9 recalled socializing with Hershfield at house parties in South Central, and described him as “a cult personality in his own right.”

At home, the doctor’s wife was worried. “I don’t understand why he goes to that area,” Michiko told me. Her husband was too generous and trusting, she added. “I bought him nice clothes, Italian-made suits, a couple times he came back with dirty clothes, he’d given the nice suit to somebody else.” With his designer threads and prescription pad, Hershfield was a mugger’s dream.
“I keep telling him it’s dangerous,” Michiko told me. Hershfield insisted he was safe. These people were his friends, he said.

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Much more at the link.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/doctor-rapp/579634/

Ok, heres another Fantastic Negrito tune, but -

That's all. For now... Probably.

You know how it is sometimes I go on a binge

Good Morning to the DUMA!

I hope you are all doing FANTASTIC! Wow, this coffee is really strong today...

Just want to talk about my Credit Union

They will give any member 0% loans for up to 4 weeks of your normal pay if you have been furloughed or are working w/out pay.

There are a lot of GS employees around where I live, and they should all be CU members after this

40 years later, we forget the hate frustration and anger that wrapped us like blankets

We gloss over how horrible Reagan and Thatcher were.

And we forget that the Stray Cats were the most talented Punks in London before Dave Edmunds cleaned them up and made them rich

Luscious Big Band Blues By the Brian Setzer Orchestra

This is a fanatastic piece of arrangment

Just writing (and then charting) this song for a band this size is a talent all its own. Add the voice and the guitar and this is a damn masterpiece.

If Brian wasn't 100% committed and playing this straight up it would be unbearably corny - But he is 100 percent sincere in his love for this music.

This is a Twitter killing - and it couldn't happen to more deservng dipshit

AOC destroys Traitor Joe

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1083579511889973250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1083579511889973250&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F01%2F11%2Falexandria-ocasio-cortez-mocks-joe-lieberman-after-he-jabbed-her%2F2551573002%2F

On YouTube I subscribe to Carter Vintage Guitars. This is guitar porn at its most hardcore and basic

It is a Nashville music store that hires the best pickers in a town full of bad ass pickers to demo their goods on line
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCkC_RBt7bYlkCI_5VPwFbA

I have posted a bunch of Molly Tuttle acoustic guitar vids so in the interest of even handedness - Ladies And Gentlemen -
Jason Isbell and Red Eye - a 1959 Gibson Les Paul

My friend Alan is running for President to bring to light 4 issues harming the US. Today, Racism

Fellow white men, we have a problem, and only we can fix it.
Our group is stained with racists, misogynists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, homophobes and other reprehensible sorts. They, their words, and their actions are, in a word, deplorable. They degrade and diminish our group. Only we can change their behavior. It does not fall on their victims—African-Americans, immigrants, women, and so on—to change them. It falls on us. Only we can improve our reputation by changing our group’s behavior.

The truth is, we will hear the bigoted comments long before the targets of this hatred ever will. White supremacists and misogynists and others are acting from a place of cowardice and weakness, not a place of courage and strength. They are less than they know they should be, so they strive to put others beneath them. Fear of these groups causes them to share their vitriol in private with other white men far sooner and far more often than they ever—if ever—get the courage to speak or act publicly.

More at the link
https://www.facebook.com/HoweDefendsUSA/posts/2239741446352363?__tn__=K-R

He knows he is running a gadfly campaign - but he travels around the country and every small radio station or local newspaper that interviews him as gets an earful of truth.