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Music

R.I.P. Arthur Lee

Yet another music pioneer from the 1960’s has passed away. This time, it’s Arthur Lee, who died of leukemia at age 61. Arthur Lee was the leader of Love, one of the most prominent L.A. bands during the height of the psychedelic era in the 1960’s and one of my favorite bands of all time. […]

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EneMan

Your Sunday dose of photography

Angel Falls produces the tallest free fall of water in the world, at over 3,000 feet, with an uninterrupted drop of over 2,600 feet. If you read the conventional history of the falls, you’d know that the one credited officially with discovering the falls is James Angel, who found the falls while looking for an […]

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Blogging

I’m a blog grandfather

Amazing. As hard as it is for me to believe, it looks as though I might have spawned another one. One of my regular commenters has decided to dip her foot into the blogosphere. Oddly enough for one of my offspring, the blog concerns motorcycles. (I’ve only been on a motorcycle a couple of times […]

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Medicine

Some Saturday morning links with my coffee

Here are a few links that I didn’t get around to mentioning during the week that are, in this blogger’s humble opinion, worth a read by my readers:

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Gonna wash those (heavy metal) toxins right out of your blood!

After the last couple of weeks of Your Friday Dose of Woo, I was in a bind. You see, people were telling me that they really enjoyed the last couple of weeks, particularly last week. For some reason, they were amused by my discussion of various liver cleansing regimens, hot on the heals of having […]