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Women don't need bras - says expert - Yahoo! Lifestyle UK : 'via Blog this' This research out a few weeks ago is good news for a few women I met in the 60s and 70s. But, after spending a week at the beach , maybe some men should be wearing the bras so long ago abandoned by my old earth mother friends.  Hey guys, beyond a certain weight, you could improve the scenery at the beach by at least wearing a t shirt. Also, wonder how you get the job as the expert on the need for bras.

The attached article appeared in Fortune magazine.  If you ever take any kind of medication you should read.  The article goes from being scary to making you angry.  Meds we take could very well not be what we think we are getting. They can make you sicker or kill you.  The disregard and skirting of quality and regulation at this one huge manufacturer of generic drugs would seem unbelievable if not proven with so much evidence. Dirty medicine - Fortune Features : 'via Blog this'  what

About 17 1/2 years ago we acquired a West Highland Terrier puppy.  Our kids were 5 and 8 years old.  At the time we had quite a few CDs of children music.  One of the favorites, Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals and Dirt   was recorded by Waylon Jennings for his son Shooter.  At our son's insistence our new companion became Shooter.  He would have many roles including... playmate for the kids soccer fan chaser of squirrels drinking companion my assistant coach for Destination Imagination Nancy's business partner when consulting from home  favored guest status at Paluxy Once Nancy was sitting in the floor enjoying one of our aquariums, when she realized the lapping sound she had been hearing was from Shooter sharing her glass of red wine as he enjoyed the fish also. Neighbors remember him from the walks through the neighborhood with our cat following 20 feet behind.  Some of our kids' parents will remember he was the dog that peed on their fol...

My ring finger looks like it was dipped in ink after voting in a Mideast election.  Actually, this is the color of a finger after being closed between two sections of a garage door.  Said a few bad words loud enough for the neighbors to overhear and bad enough to be defriended by some of my more prudish Facebook friends. When our son was in daycare many years ago, he came home one day telling us his friend Hunter had gotten in trouble that day for saying two bad words.  According to Austin, Hunter had said two bad words.  Austin, being an analytical 4 year old offered Hunter this advice for staying out of trouble.  "Hunter, next time just say one bad word". Maybe I should have just said one bad word.

Some of my friends from the northeast may recognize this date or, perhaps a few trivia nuts who really should be on Jeopardy instead of reading this post.  This was the date of the big blackout in the northeast US and part of Canada. Went to see a really good theatrical production last night about the lives of a few New Yorkers in the year leading up to the blackout. The blackout changed their lives in some quite positive and surprising ways. Fly by Night is partly a musical and partly a dark romantic comedy.  Very uniquely done with a narrator who occasionally takes part in the production, an indie band from Austin and some very good actors from New York and Dallas.  It is now playing in Dallas and very much worth seeing if you are a theater fan.  Read the reviews and go.  Theater was packed on a Wednesday night  including an unusually large number of younger attendees. Maybe a few days without all of our powered companions would chan...

About a week before the opening day of Baseball season, this was the view as I walked my dogs.  The park between the football and baseball stadiums is quite nice, but never has very many visitors except on game days. There was a lot of activity on this day at the Ballpark including a trial run of the PA system. Must have been some Baby Boomers working that day judging from the music coming from the stadium.  As Lying Eyes  by the Eagles played, I smiled as I wondered if perhaps the music selection was by someone who had observed the same 2 or 3 couples of Baby Boomers, that I had seen a few times, meeting in the adjoining park in the afternoon.  They would always arrive in separate vehicles and appeared a little more happy to see each other than you would expect from a long term relationship. If the Baby Boomer generation has a theme song for cheating, it is probably Lying Eyes . Perhaps some of us have......  Guess, I shouldn't go there. ...She rush...

Wrote about Scott after reading the NY Times article last October and wondered what became of him.  He died 3 days after the article in the NY Times.  Here is link to an interview with the Times columnist shortly after the death of his friend. http://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163188233/times-health-care-op-ed-gets-unexpected-response Below is my original post from Oct 2012 Fatal Mistake   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/kristof-a-possibly-fatal-mistake.html This article although mostly about the state of healthcare for the uninsured, illustrates the sometimes profound benefit of early cancer detection. Symptoms ignored and untreated because of a lack of health insurance resulted in unpaid costs of many hundreds of thousand dollars and counting.  Also a life will almost certainly be shortened significantly. We all help pay for these costs through local taxes and higher insurance premiums. The article brought to mind my own diagnosis an...