We just learned that some 40 percent of Americans are on some kind of constant medication – many designed to ease the ups and downs of mild depression, or heartburn, or obesity, and so on. We have drugs for hard-ons; and we have elaborate plastic surgery for anyone feeling ugly or fat. We have fat-burning … Continue reading STEROIDS AND ANTI-DEPRESSANTS
Evidence procured by torture is now sufficient to detain “enemy combatants” at Gitmo. Prisoners “have no constitutional rights enforceable in this court.” Slowly, we are beginning to piece together what the Bush administration has set up – with little public debate. The government can detain prisoners without naming them, it can use methods that are … Continue reading TORTURE IS NOW LEGIT
This is what early morning is like? The sleep study was fascinating. They basically stick electrodes all over your head and body, connect them to a little forest of wires, put you in a strange room, fix a remote camera directly on you and then tell you … to go to sleep. Thank God for … Continue reading WOW
Not for anything serious, mind you. I’m a terrible snorer and my boyfriend, who has the misfortune of falling asleep after me sometimes, also thinks I have sleep apnea. That’s what happens when, for some reason, you don’t breathe right when you’re asleep, appear to be dead for a while, and then rouse back with … Continue reading TO THE HOSPITAL
