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Wonder if animal-abusing rapper DMX thinks he looks just as cool throwing up gang signs while he's garbed in pink? In case you haven't heard, various prisons and jails across the nation have been employing the color pink to not only calm inmates during their stints, but also hopefully lower their area's re-offense rate. Sounds a bit oxymoronic to me (I mean, if the jail time is so soothing, what exactly is it that motivates a lower re-offense rate?), but, whatever. The Van Zandt County Criminal Justice Center in Texas, the Dallas County Detention Center in Missouri, and the Jackson County Jail in Iowa have all transitioned to pink in one form or another. Some believers in color psychology think pink has a calming effect, but DMX (who is currently incarcerated in Arizona's Maricopa County Jail, a facility that's been dressing cons in pink for 10 years) feels it's "ridiculous" and "disrespectful." Yeah, it's better than beating dogs, dude. Deal with it. Of course, maybe we shouldn't be so hard on X. He wants to start a TV show and begin preaching, both of which he hopes will help him reach out to others who need help. Could be prison talk, but, let's hope he's straightening up. On to the weekend psychings!

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"Oprah Winfrey would make an excellent education secretary. Dr. Phil could look after the nation's mental health. And, if you stretch the imagination a bit, Jack Bauer of 24 - minus the predilection to torture that regrettably seems to animate him - would be ideal for homeland security." Times Online's Gerard Baker's response to Barack Obama's plans to appoint a television doctor as U.S. Surgeon General. Jack Bauer would probably be ideal, yes, but as long as we're voting for fictional characters, my yays go to Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows. For both mental health and homeland security purposes. I'm just in love loyal like that. Anyway, it's time for another Weekend Psychings - enjoy! As for movies, Todd Drezner, a Columbia University Film MFA graduate, is currently making Loving Lampposts, a film FilmStew.com says will "include a close-up look at 'neurodiversity,' a movement which posits that curing autism is something that is neither possible nor desirable." As the father of a son diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, Drezner takes special interest in the subject and the film will reportedly feature celebrity advocates like Jenny McCarthy. (For those who're interested, Loving Lampposts is Drezner's directorial debut, but he also worked as an editor on I Paint Pictures, a 2007 documentary about a New York street artist with schizophrenia.)

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