An Epidemic

I spent much of last night digesting a huge chunk of a procedure manual for the DSM-IV-tr, the "bible", as it were, of psychiatry. It was interesting, in an intellectual history sort of way, and some of it actually made some sense. Fortunately I am in the middle of a gigantic Erik Satie binge- hours and hours of that mad Frenchman's marvelous music- so that formed the soundtrack. Dark chocolate gave me the requisite umfph for gliding though "caffeine disorders" at about 1 in the morning. Then, distracted, I stumbled on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoppJOtRLe4

A parody, true. But not far from the state of things....