Free, promotional email list for Stay Free! print magazine

[Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>]

"Since we've got a new issue coming out next month, I'm trying to get 
more of the back issues on the website. Here are a few items from issue 
#22, which came out last spring:

THE DARK SIDE OF DOG BREEDING.
Why can't purebred retrievers retrieve? How do sickly powder puffs win 
dog shows? What makes a dalmatian a dalmatian? Historian James Serpell 
discusses humanity's kinship with canines.
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/

STAY FREE! POP QUIZ
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/pop-quiz.html

MY NEW FAVORITE THING.
Books, movies, and other items we fancy:

      Martin and Rowan's Laugh-In (TV)
      Channel 101.com (video comedy)
      Manic (movie)
      USSR-Airspace.com (website)
      Wizard People, Dear Reader (movie)
      My hot glue gun (tool)

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/

BIG IDEAS
Stay Free! readers share their get-rich-quick schemes and 
entrepreneurial experiences.
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/entrepreneurial.html

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FROM THE BLOG
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org

WIZARD PEOPLE SCREENING IN NYC - TUES. MAY 31

Stay Free! is pleased to announce that we'll be screening Brad Neely's 
Wizard People, Dear Reader, here in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, on 
Tuesday, May 31st, at Southpaw (5th Ave. between Sterling and St. 
John's). This will be part of the release party for our upcoming issue, 
Stay Free! #24. Details to follow... If you're not yet familiar with 
Wizard People and Warner Brothers' attempts to shut it down, check out 
this NPR feature.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/wizard_people_s.html


STAY FREE! T-SHIRTS FOR SALE

In a renewed quest to financially justify the time I spend on Stay 
Free!, I've started a t-shirt "shop" via CafePress.com. Lots of parody 
corporate logos, etc.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/stay_free_tshir.html
http://www.cafepress.com/stayfree


WALTON 342, SHAQ 350
Posted by Steve Lambert

Even you non-sports fans have heard of Shaquille O'Neal, right? Well, 
did you know as a professional player he only makes about half of his 
free throws? You know freethrows, those shots when no one is guarding 
you. Now Artist Lee Walton has given Shaq a run for his money with Lee 
Walton's 2004-2005 Free Throw Championship...
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/walton_342_shaq.html


POCKET JUDGE

My friend Becky (and her friend Jeff) put together a nifty eBay auction 
for "Pocket Judge(TM): Stick one in your hip pocket and it'll be hip to 
YOUR special interests."
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/pocket_judge.html
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6527746357

DIABETES ASSOCIATION FLIP-FLOPS ON DIABETES

The American Diabetes Association recently announced its new 
partnership with Cadbury Schweppes, which... ok... may not be the most 
ironic sponsorship deal I've heard of -- that would be Coca-Cola's 
sponsorship of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) -- 
but it's close.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org


I FAKE IT SO REAL I AM BEYOND FAKE
Posted by Charles Star

Since I am now the resident breast-news poster, I bring you the 
Evolution by Margarita bra. According to the Brastraps.com press 
release: "[Evolution] features a sculpted, graduated cup specially 
designed to mimic the appearance of cosmetic breast implants by lifting 
and slightly separating each breast to appear fuller and firmer both in 
and out of clothing."
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/i_fake_it_so_re.html


HOW TO FAKE A TOWNHALL MEETING

Here's an awesome clip from the Daily Show about the Bush 
administration's penchant for staging television-friendly (that is, 
fake) townhall meetings. The interview with Republican wordsmith Frank 
Luntz is priceless. This guy is such a brilliant media strategist and 
yet he seems absolutely unaware that the Daily Show coorespondant 
(Samantha Bee) us gunning for him.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/update_on_video.html


WHERE HAVE ALL THE CORKIES GONE?
Posted by Jason Torchinsky

So earlier today my friend Galen sent me this email:
"Has Rosie O'Donnell ever made you laugh? Go to http://www.cbs.com and 
watch the promo for Riding the Bus with my Sister. She may have single 
handedly set back mental retardation 100 years.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org


HOW TO RIG A DRUG TRIAL

There's been lots of research comparing manufacturer-sponsored medical 
research to the old-fashioned, unsponsored kind, and the results are 
pretty much what'd you expect: "Studies sponsored by pharmaceutical 
firms were four times more likely to show results favoring the drug 
being tested than studies funded by other sources." How do academics do 
it and still maintain scientific credibility? The Carlat Report has 
come up with a handy summary of tips drug companies use to steer 
clinical trial results in their favor...
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/how_to_rig_a_cl.html


NYC'S RECIPE FOR DEPRESSION

New York is beginning a broad, citywide program to encourage primary 
care doctors to screen people for depression. Participating doctors 
(and the goal is to have ALL primary care doctors in the city hospital 
system participating) will ask any patient they consider at risk nine 
questions, developed in tandem with the RAND corporation: In the past 
two weeks, how often have you been bothered by trouble concentrating on 
things? Feeling tired or having little energy? Poor appetite or 
overeating? Not making the list: How many hours a week are you working? 
Do you get along with your boss? Have enough money to pay rent? Recent 
break-ups? Family problems? You get the idea...
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/depressed_now_y.html


DEPRESSED? NOW YOU WILL BE...

While working on a comment to my previous post (about New York City's 
new plan to encourage primary care doctors to screen patients for 
depression), I discovered that the Bush administration has been pushing 
to expand mental health screening nationally. Why is this a problem? 
Well, for one thing, according to the MindFreedom Support Coalition, a 
human's rights group, pharmaceutical companies, in conjunction with the 
(scary) American Enterprise Institute, are writing the rules. And those 
rules call for more coercive treatments such as forced (court-ordered) 
drugging.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/depressed_now_y_1.html


HOPE IN THE DARK
Posted by Steve Lambert

Author Rebecca Solnit starts Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild 
Possibilities off by discussing artist Mark Lombardi. Lombardi was half 
journalist, half artist. Through intense research he was able to 
visually chart out the networks that link centers of power together in 
large scale drawings. He did it so well, the FBI actually came to the 
Whitney Museum in 2001, viewing his work to aid their investigation of 
Osama Bin Laden. Lombardi was able to research and synthesize an 
incredible amount of information in is work, and for complex reasons, 
he committed suicide in 2000. However, living with the information and 
detailed understanding of the world he had in his head it's easy to see 
how depression overcame him.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/hope_in_the_dar.html


REPORT: KIDS HOSPITALIZED FOR ILLITERACY

From Australian Associated Press: A report by the Australian government 
has found that children's clinics in hospitals across Australia are 
being swamped with patients whose only problem is their inability to 
read. The head of the government's inquiry into reading, Ken Rowe, said 
hospital psychology clinics were straining to cope with children 
seeking medical attention for problems caused by their failure to learn 
at school. "Hospitals are complaining that their clinics are being 
filled with kids who are being referred for things like (ADHD)," he 
told the Sydney Morning Herald. "But once the pediatricians sort out 
the children's literacy problems the behaviour problems disappear."
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/report_kids_hos.html


GEORGE JETSON GETS A PRESENT FROM DOVE
Posted by Charles Star

Everyone I talk to adores the new Dove Styling ads in which famous 
cartoon women all get product-aided makeovers. But Dove Styling 
apparently confers an unspoken benefit: bigger breasts. Because the 
hair is so different, your instinctive response is to credit the new 
haircut for the revamped looks. But these cartoon women have more than 
a healthy glow in their hair. Each of their bodies has been "improved" 
in subtle but unmistakable ways. Let's go to the videotape.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/george_jetson_d.html


ADVERTISERS: TRIX AREN'T FOR KIDS

The makers of Hostess Twinkies, Nestle Crunch, and Little Debbie cakes 
have come up with an unexpected response to critics who blame them for 
marketing junk food to kids: denial. "Hostess is not a kids' brand," 
says Jacques Roizen, chief marketing officer for Interstate Bakeries 
Corp., maker of Hostess snack cakes and fruit pies. "A majority of our 
snacks are consumed by adults." The target customer for Baby Ruth candy 
bars? "Definitely adult men," says Barb Skoog, spokeswoman for Nestlé 
SA.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/twinkees_the.html


NYU ROBOTS LAUNCH AD CAMPAIGN FOR THE CIA

Whoops, I mean students, not robots: New York University Professor 
Jacob Jacoby and his students are running an ad campaign to promote the 
Central Intelligence Agency as an "exceptional employer...."
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/cia_nyu_robots_.html


THE NEW SUV PSAS ESUSEEKAY

Inside1suvadWhile I am not an anti-SUV zealot like some around here, 
I'm not particularly thrilled to see them in a place like Brooklyn. But 
even I realize that a new SUV-safety PSA making the rounds is symbolic 
of everything that is wrong with SUV culture.

In the first commercial of this campaign, which first aired during the 
Super Bowl, a combination of a tauntaun, a beast from Where the Wild 
Things Are and a Range Rover -- an esuvee, of course -- comes hurtling 
out of a rodeo gate pitching to and fro, its driver hanging on for dear 
life.
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/04/while_i_am_not_.html