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That’s right. Free. No charge. No gimmick (see below).
Today’s theme: Pharmaceuticals
Colorful Living Tip of the Day (I) …
Understand that when erectile dysfunction drug makers report that side effects include erections lasting 3 hours what they’re really talking about are front effects.
Random related …
• What if one of the unforeseen Covid vax side effects turns out to be that recipients become more empathetic, tolerant & appreciative of their fellow man? How many would refuse on grounds they prefer being miserable bastards?
• How many of you would take a pill that would prevent coronavirus but had one side effect: It would completely & emphatically change your opinion on Trump. That is, if you love him, you'd now viscerally & vocally detest him. And vice versa. I'll bet most of you couldn't do it.
Random Biblical/social media thought …
The assumption may be based on a flawed premise, but I have to believe if Moses had had to deal with fan selfie demands we’d today only be concerned with The Five Commandments.
Arnold Palmer: On This Day in …
2006 -- The Desert Sun in La Quinta, California, says The Arnold Palmer Restaurant is one of the best in the restaurant-rich city.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into a dictionary) …
Slomosexual: A person who devotes his or her life to the self-proclaimed virtues of public heterosexuality before finally coming to grips with their true sexual identity.
Days Until Pittsburgh Steelers Come To Latrobe for Training Camp: 198
What to do today in the Laurel Highlands …
• Make plan’s to visit Lapel’s fine Men’s Clothier in Greensburg for owner Kevin Mistick’s “New Year. New Wardrobe. New You.” winter clearance sale today through Saturday.
• Book a spring stay at Nemacolin, one of America’s top all-season resorts just one hour south of Latrobe. The resort is being featured in the current season of “The Bachelor.”
Colorful Living Tip (II)…
613: Consider how drastic pharmacological innovations will change the future.
Today’s Feature Post
“A pill to end the need for sleep; one to end need to eat. You must pick one”
Imagine it is the future, which means it could be 10, 20 or 50 years from now or it could be tomorrow morning. It is announced a major pharmaceutical company has developed a pill that if you take just once will eliminate the need to eat. Simultaneously, a rival announces it has developed a pill that eliminates the need to sleep.
Which do you choose?
Will you never sleep again or never eat again?
I’m torn.
Sleeping and eating are two of my very favorite human activities. But, guaranteed, we’re nearing a day when these prescriptive remedies become available.
Read extended version here …
Related posts …
Parkinson’s update & where do they get those drug names
Skin-coloring pills will solve America’s racial problems
Prince & The nation that pees purple
Oddly enough …
Point Roberts, WA: America’s most exclusive gated community
Point Roberts, Washington, is a Gilligan’s Island that is all Gilligan and no island. It is the only place in contiguous America where Americans have to leave America and display a passport just to get back into America. Surrounded by salt water on three sides and less than five square miles in all, this scenic little lick of land is home to 1,200 year-round residents who should by all logic be Canadians but became fractionally American by institutional indifference when the international border was set in 1848. Anyone who takes the time to spy it on a map might think it looks like America’s tiny asterisk. With the only entrance protected by international border guards, Point Roberts has the lowest crime rate of any town in America.
Gratuitous Random Review for …
“In 1970 I read, in one sitting, Jonathon Livingston Seagull. Since then, I have only completed reading one other book within the first week of its purchase until Undaunted Optimist. Good-humored, irreverent, and upbeat it was an easy commitment.” George A., Verified amazon buyer
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