Think the psychedelic drug LSD belongs in the tie-dyed “turn on, tune in, drop out” days of the past? Ayelet Waldman — novelist, essayist, and wife of Michael Chabon — believes that, at least when it comes to therapeutic drug use, you ought to think again.

In her new book “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life,” Waldman details a month she spent using minute doses of LSD to escape an emotional state of, as she told the Forward, “absolute desperation.” During that month, she took 10-microgram doses of the drug — one-fifteenth of an ordinary dose — once every three days.

In “A Really Good Day” Waldman takes an earnest look at her own emotional makeup, the often-surprising science on the use of LSD, opioids, and amphetamines, and the systematic racism of the United States’ War on Drugs.

She didn’t set out to write a book when she began microdosing, she told the Forward. Shortly after she began the experiment, though, she realized its literary potential. The project brought her back in touch with her former career as a federal public defender, during which she often defended clients accused of drug-related felonies.

Stay tuned for a Forward feature on “A Really Good Day.”

Progressives who were planning on squeezing their eyes shut for the next four years and pretending Clinton won the election got a rude shock this morning: They would have hated Clinton’s Cabinet, too.

Former Politico staffer Mike Allen released a “Ghost Cabinet” list of nominees that the Clinton camp had had in mind, based on his conversations with unnamed “Clinton insiders.”

The list is full of names that would have enraged the left, including Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for Secretary of Labor and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was under consideration for Secretary of Commerce.

Allen’s report was anonymously sourced, and is now, moot. But it speaks to concerns among liberal Democrats that Clinton was out of touch with her constituents.

The strain of liberalism that doesn’t understand why that’s bad is the strain we need to remove from the party leadership, permanently.— David Klion (@DavidKlion) January 10, 2017

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When her friends decided to don Batman and Wonder Woman costumes for “Super Hero” day at school, Michele Threefoot had a different idea — instead dressing up as her role model, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

After her mom posted the photo to Facebook — complete with black robe, hair done in a bun and horn-rimmed glasses — the Notorious R.B.G. reached out to the Maryland eight-year-old, sending her a personal note that complimented her outfit and encouraged her to keep on learning. “Dear Michele, You look just like me!” the note read. “May you continue to thrive on reading and learning. Every good wish, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

Excited to show her class, Threefoot brought the letter to class, where her teacher read it aloud and used it as an opportunity to teach the class about the Supreme Court. Michele’s mother Krista Threefoot said that her daughter got the inspiration for the costume from a children’s book about Ginsburg, “I Dissent.”

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(JTA) — The British rock band Coldplay denied reports that it was planning two “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians in November.

A representative for the band said the report was not true, according to Rolling Stone.

The Times of Israel had cited a report by Israel’s Channel 2 in an article that said the band was to perform on Nov. 3 and 4 at an outdoor location north of the Dead Sea.

The Channel 2 report, according to The Times of Israel, had said that the shows would aim to promote human rights and bring people together and that  tickets — 50,000 for each concert — would be sold in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

What’s it like to go on a tour of Israel with far-righters who deny the Holocaust, but love Israel because it knows how to deal with the “Muslim problem?” Wait no longer, because an undercover reporter from Neon Magazine did that, traveling with individuals from the fringe on a trip last year to the Jewish state.

Called “Modern Israel: Politics, Army, Society and Fun,” the junket was organized by the far-right Politically Incorrect blog, which is associated with the Alternative for Germany party. Over the course of the trip, participants asked their tour guides if there was a “Jewish gene,” laughed about blowing up a Tel Aviv mosque and speculated that the “American establishment” was responsible for the Holocaust (if indeed it did occur).

Other highlights included when the visitors said that Africans’ presence in Tel Aviv meant that “invaders” had taken over the city, and a trip to a Gush Etzion firing range, where the group simulated mowing down “terrorists,” telling the undercover reporter that the exercise would help them fight Arabs and anti-fascists.

While it might seem grotesque from the outside, Politically Incorrect has called the vacation a success, and is planning another one for May.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon