Posted on 12/08/2004 1:26:58 PM PST by SmithL
The odds are very good that you are on drugs.
Right now. This minute. As I type this and as you read this and as false Texas dictators rise and sad empires crumble and as this mad bewildered world spins in its frantically careening orbit, there's a nearly 50/50 chance that some sort of devious synthetic chemical manufactured by some massive and largely heartless corporation is coursing through your bloodstream and humping your brain stem and molesting your karma and kicking the crap out of your libido and chattering the teeth of your very bones.
Maybe it's regulating your blood pressure. Maybe it's keeping your cholesterol in check. Maybe it's helping you sleep. Maybe it's helping you wake the hell up. Maybe it's opening your bronchial tubes. Maybe it's brightening your terminally bleak outlook.
Maybe it's adjusting your hormone levels or controlling your urge to weep every minute or relaxing the blood vessels in your penis or cranking the serotonin to your brain or pumping carefully measured slugs of alprazolam or fluoxetine or sertraline or atorvastatin or esomeprazole or buspirone or venlafaxine or any number of substances with Latin-rooted jawbreaker names through your flesh in a bizarre dance of miraculous vaguely disturbing death-defying scientific wonder.
Forty-four percent of all Americans. That's the latest number. Almost half us are popping at least one prescription drug and fully one in six are popping three or more, and the numbers are only increasing and this of course doesn't count alcohol or cigarettes or bad porn and it doesn't count the mad megadoses of jingoistic flag-waving God-slappin' fear -- which is, as evidenced by the last election, . . . .
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Yeah, it's all Bush's fault.
Morford can go pound sand.
Shove it where the Sun don't shine!
If Conservatism was a mind-alerting drug, I'd be high all the time.
More liberal meltdown.
Again?
I thought Timothy Leary was dead.
If you read much more of his stuff, you're going to wind up on at least one more BP med. Try a Rush thread... :)
"...molesting your karma..."
What is this, 1968?
Your karma just ran over my dogma!
My head just exploded from over-use of adverbs, pronouns and mixed-metaphors...
"...chattering the teeth of your very bones."
Please make the bad man go away...
9 out 10 starving, parasite-ridden hunter/gatherers wouldn't agree with you.
Civilization - It's Bush's fault!
And your point is......???
Interesting anecdotal evidence: I started montoring my BP at home this fall. About the same time, I grew tired of the shout-fests in the evening, and switched to HGTV.
After a week of HGTV instead of O'Reilly and Hannity & Colmes, my BP dropped 20 points!
Moderation in all things. Allergies and asthma both have increased way beyond what can be attributable to missed diagnoses. The current theory about why this is happening is because we shelter our kids from germs and dirt so much, their immune systems have nothing to do and begin attacking food particles etc. We need our medications, but we need nature too.
Well, it did once take 15 different medications to stop AIDS, Marky. I don't think you can pin that one on BushCo.
Texas first, now the US, and the rest of North America in the Spring. After that we take the rest of the WORLD .............
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