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books like Dr. Sherwin Nuland’s Lost in America, the story by a world-famous surgeon and author, about his terrible childhood, a domineering father, and his year in a mental hospital which included electroshock and almost ended in lobotomy; The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog (recommended by Alice Miller); The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; The Republican War On Science by Chris Mooney; Alice Miller's "The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting"; Dr. Marcia Angell’s The Truth About the Drug Companies; Confessions of an Economic Hitman; Robert McChesney’s Rich Media, Poor Democracy; Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony of Survival; Bright Red Scream by Marilee Strong about cutters and self-mutilation, and The Center Cannot Hold by Ellen Sachs about schizophrenia.

columnists like Paul Krugman. 

films like Body of War; Rendition; Juno; Definitely Maybe; The Real Dirt on Farmer John; The U.S. vs. John Lennon; Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads; Sicko by Michael Moore; Shut Up and Sing (featuring the anti-war Dixie Chicks); I’m Your Man (about the life of Leonard Cohen); Fast Food Nation; An Inconvenient Truth; Neil Young’s Heart of Gold; The Lemon Tree; Unconstitutional; Paper Clips; Kinsey; The Sea Inside; Bush's Brain; and Uncovered.

getaways like Harbin Hot Springs.

legal information like www.nolo.com for reliable books, software, legal forms, and an extensive website.

magazines  like Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel.

medical information like Kidshealth.org, MayoClinic.com, MedicineNet.com, Medscape.com, NIH.gov, and WebMD.com, Healthcentral.com, Achoo.com, Medwebplus.com, Healthatoz.com, and /or Medscape.com.    

music Bruce Springsteen‘s “Who Will Be the Last to Die?” on the album entitled Magic; Eddie Vedder’s remarkable "No More" (available at www.bodyofwarmusic.com and also on YouTube); Neil Young’s Living With War; Bruce Springsteen’s We Shall Overcome and also Devils and Dust; the Dixie Chicks’ Taking the Long Way; Green Day’s American Idiot and their CD/DVD Bullet in a Bible;Roland Orzabal’s Tomcats Screaming Outside; Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross; U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb; and, after a 15-year hiatus, Tears for Fears has reunited.  

news like the blog search engine www.technorati.com and/or websites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com. 

Project Censored (www.projectcensored.org), Sonoma State’s highly acclaimed department that, for 30 years, has brought to light under-reported and censored news stories. 

radio like 94.1 FM KPFA and 91.7 FM KALW; 960 AM with Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Rachel Maddow and others; and Laura Flanders on Air America.

restaurants the French Garden in Sebastopol and Le Charm in San Francisco. 

television like almost everything on PBS (much of which is free and available at www.PBS.org) including the award-winning Frontline (e.g., “The Undertaking”) and The American Experience (e.g., “The Lobotomist”); “Anthony Bourdin: No Reservations,” especially his unexpectedly powerful and poignant episodes in Beirut and in New Orleans; Dexter, the dark story of a man who can’t really feel, and who becomes a truly macabre yet somehow almost likable serial murderer; Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days; The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central ... and well, TiVo. 

websites like Songza.com, a free jukebox that will play almost any song that you want to hear; www.rottentomatoes.com, a fun place that rates movies based on the reviews of many critics; Yelp.com; www.gethuman.com in order to navigate those crazy corporate phone trees so you talk to an actual human; votesmart.com to find out how your elective officials REALLY vote; free podcasts from UC Berkeley through iTunes (webcast.berkeley.edu ... youtube.com/ucberkeley); greenerchoices.org; www.commondreams.org; www.worstpills.org; and www.truthout.org.