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It's been a while

I don't know if I still have any readers (or if I ever did). But I have a couple of items for you. Actually, I understand my most regular reader is my aunt, who is a very proper special education teacher who lives in the south and never uses curse words. So presumably everything I’ve written is for my aunt. As a special ed teacher she deserves to be entertained, so I shall keep up my writing.

This is priceless. Jim Kenefick, who runs moorewatch.com and whose life revolves around criticizing Michael Moore, couldn't pay for his wife's cancer treatment (presumably because he's to lazy to make enough money). Anyway, an anonymous benefactor offered to pay the bill for him and Kenefick said it was like manna from heaven.

I probably don’t need to complete the story for you, but it turned out that the money came from Michael Moore. Kenefick is outraged that Moore helped when his conservative buddies refused. I’ve been reading this guy’s site and he is just going ape shit. It is hilarious. He said that the $12,000 gift equals Mike’s ding-dong budget for a week. I guess good old-fashioned compassion ain’t gonna win over everyone.

While we’re talking about healthcare, I wanted to take the opportunity to work in an immature joke about something. As you might be aware, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs is legal in two industrialized countries; the U.S. and New Zealand. (You know something is sane and rational when the only countries that allow it are the U.S. and New Zealand.) All other industrial nations make it illegal to advertise prescription drugs on tv and such for obvious reasons.

However, I always love commercials for prescription drugs, as they are some of the funniest. There is nothing funnier than talking about “E.D.” or constipation while being totally serious and trying very hard not to be funny. There was once a commercial for a laxative that showed a cartoon of people made out of plumbing who were walking around very uncomfortable and groining. I almost fell off the couch laughing when I saw it.

The obvious comedy goldmine, is of course Cialis and other prescriptions for “E.D.” The best part is the disclaimer at the end, I don’t know if you’ve ever stopped and listened to it.

“Some patients reported delayed back or muscle ache while taking Cialis…
seek immediate medical attention if you experience priapism, an erection lasting four or more hours…
and if you experience a sudden loss of vision, stop taking Cialis immediately.”

Now that I think about it, my mom would actually find that funnier than my aunt would.

posted by Joe @ 3:06 PM