ED is rearing its ugly head again, and those of us in the target market for Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra know all too well it can’t be raised enough. But should Medicare pay for a bunch of guys over sixty-five to run around like sex-craved teenagers? That is the question.
Not yourself lately? Maybe it’s because Choice Point, a gatherer of background information, has sold somewhere between 145,000 and 500,000 private information files, maybe yours and mine, to fake companies that outsmarted its…credentialing process? But take heart, Choice Point hired a—as in singular—retired Secret Service agent to help revamp its verification process—I guess that would be its ‘credentialing process.’
Quick, what do the Saab R-7X, Chevy Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier and Isuzu Ascender have in common? Answer: same production line. What does the R-7X cost? Answer: $39,000 (+-). What does the Trailblazer cost? Answer $28,000 (+-).
Headline: Lawsuits Are Not the Only Reason for Higher Malpractice Insurance Premiums. Doh! Would the other reason be malpractice?
Nielsen is finally going to change its research to something more in tune with what its clients want—talk about independent research. Anyway, the company did propose setting aside $2.5 million to pay for a year’s worth of methodological research. Wow, a whole $2.5 million for methodological research! Maybe they’re going to use the same Secret Service agent that Choice Point hired to revamp its ‘credentialing process.’
Forget all the other definitions of nanometer—this is the only one you’ll ever need: meter is to 400 miles as nanometer is to 1 inch. Oh sure, you could use the old billionth of a meter or one 25-millionth of an inch definitions, but they’re so passé don’t you think?
Have you ever wondered why crickets travel in crowds?
And finally, you’ll be pleased to know that rather than call a newly discovered female cockroach chemical—one that (finally?) might actually work as bait—gentisyl quinine isovalerate, you may call it blattellaquinone. Whew! Glad they got that resolved. Alas, 15,000 virgin female cockroaches (I wonder how they knew they were virgins), probably about one gazillionth of those in NYC alone, had to be dissected in this noble cause. No mention made of the male cockroaches that raced crazily into these baited sex traps. Poor buggers.