Monday minirants

So much news, so little to snark about…

First up on my list: What idiot thought it would be a good idea for pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription drugs? We complain about high drug prices, yet we have Big Pharma spending millions, if not billions, advertising drugs which only doctors can prescribe to the great unwashed? “If you have (letters meaning some made-up dsease which didn’t exist before an otherwise useless drug was found to treat it and only it – I’m talkin’ ’bout you, Restless Leg Syndrome) XYZ, it is best treated by our new wonder drug Adnauseum! Side effects may include shortnes of breath, ugliness, syphllis, death, leprosy, and uncontrollable flatulence”.  You can only get Adnausum from a licensed physician…and he/she already knows what they will prescribe for this (due to the attention and/or rewards from that cute pharmaceuticals rep). In any case, I have never met a doctor in my life who would take advice from a PATIENT as to what to prescribe. Geez, most of them think they are God anyway,  much less listening to some idiot yammering for Adnauseum when his problem is something completely different (say, like a broken neck.) Yet we allow the companies to write off said millions/billions as expenses.

Second: a personal favorite – “moderate to severe” anything. Whoever came up with THAT little doozy needs to be spit-roasted slowly over a nice bed of bright red charcoal. And you can use the term spit-roasted any way you want.

Third: describing a Chinese spy balloon as a “meteorological research” balloon. Insisting they couldn’t bring it down short of a full pass over the US due to a potentially dangerous debris field. A slowly descending balloon is not gonna create a huge debris field…and having been in places like Idaho, Kansas, etc. I can asure you that there is a LOT of open area into which the USS Enterprise could crash land and only a few people would be affected.

Last, one we all know and love: “mostly peaceful”. Saw it again in an article how Little Turtle was shot during “mostly peaceful” protests. He/They/Sheeit shot a cop in the stomach. Bullet matched to his gun, caps say it was him, gun was officially purchased by him…and yet since they were “mostly peaceful” protests the cops are catching flak, and headlines are that the first ever environmental protester was killed. It’s as bitterly amusing as all the rioting, looting, arson, and mayhem in the wake of St. George’s death, which is when the “mostly peaceful” phrase originated. If I pee in your beer, it’s still “mostly beverage”, right?

Oh, and in a nod to Lars – I see where some Biden folks claim we had brief Chiese overflights during the past administration, as if that excuses this one. Now, that this was never spoken of until now, senior security guys from the Trumpp administration say it never happened, and Biden’s favorite blame-deferrence tactic is “Trump whataboutism” – I am sure those are all coincidental. Given how the Trumpers were pilloried in the press for any missteps, I find this a bit thin- but then I am a bit of a cynic sometimes.

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