Getting goosebumps 

If I had another wholly new career, I'd take up physiology and psychology and study the getting of goosebumps. I get them with music that means something to me, and less often when I hear an idea that seems like it could become something big or important. What's fascinating to me about the reaction is that it almost always surprises me. Like, just now I got them when I heard the song "Don't You Care" by the Buckinghams. It's not even really my era, a tad early. There must be some association down in there somewhere that I'm unable to call up.

Or maybe I just like it! Maybe they were my warm-up for Chicago a couple years later. I was listening to some early Chicago the other night (I don't care at all for anything after IV). Listening to Terry Kath play the guitar, it felt so alive that I started questioning whether he was really dead. He is. He was a good player. Bet you never even remember there was a 2-minute guitar solo in the middle of "25 or 6 to 4." You think about the horns. Post-Kath they became too dainty for me.

Secret database -- until recently 

A loophole in the Federal No Child Left Behind Act compels high schools to turn over information including kids' email addresses and cell phone numbers to the Pentagon for military recruitment. If you know people 16-25 who don't want this information kept, tell them they can opt out.