I changed my mind

I’ve decided to hold off on all of the crappy stuff I have until after the holiday weekend.

You probably could have guessed

I haven’t been blogging lately because every time I start to write something it turns out to be political or medical and I haven’t wanted to bother anybody with all of that stuff. 

Well, I decided that if that’s what’s on my mind then that’s what I’m going to blog about.

So this is fair warning that you can expect to be inundated with that sort of stuff for a while since at this point I have a bunch of posts saved up.  I’ll post what I’ve got until I run out or until something else comes to mind.

This may be a big political season but I sure hope that something else comes to mind real soon.

Oh well.  We’ll see what happens.

Improvisation dysfunction

So there are these commercials for an ED drug that talk about being at that age when you’re old enough to know how to take care of things.  Except, apparently, getting it up and satisfying your partner which is why you need their pill.  But I digress.

The first one I saw had this guy driving through the desert in an old muscle car and it starts to overheat.  So he pulls into a service station – remember those? – walks past the guy standing in front of the garage and waves.  Then he walks inside, buys a bottle of cold water from the fridge in the store, drinks some and pours the rest into his car.

I guess he knew enough to manage to get the radiator cap off without getting scalded, but somehow he was too stupid to ask the mechanic for a hose so he could top off his radiator with warm water – which would almost certainly be free.  Instead he buys cold water to put in his overheated car.

I’m not sure what this guy has learned in his life but how to take of a car wasn’t part of it.

Another one shows a guy on a sailboat and the clamp for a pulley on the boom breaks.  So on a boat full of ropes and lines and various things for tying things down, this guy takes the strap from his life jacket to reattach the pulley.  Now there’s real genius for you.

I’m not sure what point these commercials are trying to make, but I think they better start selling a pill to improve common sense because these guys are morons.  Maybe all the blood rushed from their brains.

Round 2

I had the second dentist visit for my root canal yesterday.  He couldn’t finish it the first time because the canal wasn’t dry and it needs to be so he can fill it.

This time wasn’t quite as bad because there was less done.  I asked him to just put a temporary filling on, like he did the last time, rather than start the crown work with a base and a temporary crown.  The only reason for that was financial.  I can’t really afford the work I just had done but my tooth broke so I didn’t have much choice.

Even with dental insurance I just can’t afford a crown right now, and based on my x-rays I need more than one.  My dentist is a good guy.  He knows this stuff isn’t cheap, he’ll discuss alternatives even if he doesn’t really recommend them (like pulling teeth instead of fixing them) and he always talks about arranging things both in the best way treatment wise and also to spread the cost out.  He doesn’t lower his prices, but they haven’t gone up much over the years and the biggest part of the cost is the independent lab that makes the crown.

My dentist has worked with me in the past to spread out payments and he’ll do his best to keep my teeth from falling apart – and keep me healthy – with the lowest cost possible.

This may sound weird but I actually like my dentist.  He has a great chair-side manner and makes sure that you aren’t in too much pain.

There is a lot to be said about dental care in this country and I had a really depressing post written about this involving my own health and situation and the state of this country, but you really don’t want to read that.  I don’t really want to post that, either.

I’ll let you know when I get the work finished because I know that everyone is hanging on every word I write about my teeth.  This is absolutely riveting.

Deliberate malevolence

People who want to destroy public education are evil.

I really can’t think of another word for it.

Questions

Do the people who want unregulated markets leave their cars and homes unlocked, their money lying around the house and not want police to protect our lives and property?

If some people can’t be trusted not to steal a few dollars why can we trust these financial geniuses not to steal billions? Somehow they’re the ones who are moral and upstanding and eminently trustworthy? That’s how we save the economy, by letting people do whatever they want?

I’m supposed to take these ideas seriously?

More pain, less gain

When people talk about broadening the tax base they mean making poor people pay more.

Who thinks that’s a good thing?