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2008-12-11 :: lolife // Uncategorized
Feel good pills

I read a news story that said cold medicine doesn’t help people feel better. Ibuprofen, though, does make cold sufferers feel better. Wonderful little pills like Vicoden and Percoset work even better! If you want a cure for the common cold, take a Percoset. Except you can’t. Our government in their extreme wisdom spends a [...]

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2008-11-14 :: lolife // Science
Get with it RFK

I like Robert Kennedy Jr. I think he is a smart guy who is trying to do the right thing in a lot of areas. But dude you have got to drop this “vaccinations causes autism” bullshit. It’s completely, 100% NOT TRUE. You are hurting children far more than you are helping them. Read up [...]

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A major cause of the health care crisis in America is that millions of dollars are spent every day by health care providers and medical insurance providers arguing. Talk to any doctor. They spend tons of money managing the crushing bureaucracy of insurance companies. The insurance companies do this on purpose because they ultimately have [...]

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2008-06-13 :: lolife // Journal
God damn you divorced people

I called the doctor today because my infant son was exposed to chicken pox. The person on the phone, after verifying my identify thoroughly (which I appreciate) proceeded to tell me that someone else had already called the doctor on behalf of my son but she could not tell me who it was. So…the hospital [...]

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2008-02-24 :: lolife // Politics
Socialized Health Insurance

Micadelic said: And, in another post, you said that universal health care is fiscally conservative. Dude, that is laughable, and yes, insane. No, you’re bad at math. Right now we have a situation where millions of Americans without health insurance get no preventative care at all. So they wait until they are very sick before [...]

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2008-02-17 :: lolife // Politics
Dr. Lyle Rossiter is incompetent

From the Ann Coulter school of psychiatry: “Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal [...]

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Dr. Craig Bowron posted a great article at MinnPost about colds, the flu and antibiotics. His first point is that there is a new test that is “capable of detecting 12 of the most-common viruses causing upper respiratory infection. Its net includes the major players like rhinovirus, the purveyor of the majority of colds; Respiratory [...]

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