The Next Best Thing?

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That was fun. You can be sooo deliciously irresponsible when you're drunk. I'm back early today after sampling some of Kootch's Bare Foot (red wine). She was watching Okra the other day and found out that a glass of red wine a day is a good thing healthwise. So I bought her a big bottle of it and tried some with her as we watched Millionaire on TIVO. That led to a beer... and you can guess the rest.

Meanwhile I'm not missing much in the way of news because it's all about the aftermath of Katrina and I'm about Katrina'd out.

The Pat Robertson thing is pretty much over for now. Jesse Jackson made a pilgrimage to Venezuela in order to molify Hugo Chavez, and now he (Chavez) seems to be offering to supply cheap petroleum products to poor US consumers. Tongue-in-cheek? Perhaps, but I think we should take him up on it.

And many nations are now offering aid to the US in response to Katrina. What a switch! I do hope the Bush administration will not turn any of them down.

The TIVO of The Week so far as I am concerned was the Frontline piece, 'Faith and Doubt at Ground zero.' What a show! I, of course, had lots of fun watching and 'commenting' because this stuff is right up my alley, so to say. Serious competition was another pbs piece, Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry. The part I saw was very tear-inducing, and I will mark it for immunity, deletionwise, until I can see it.

Kootch has a mild case of Psoriasis and her doctor prescribed triamcinolone. Since I had a bad experience with that drug I looked up both 'the disease and the cure' on the web today. In Kootch's particular case the drug seems to have been well-(boom)prescribed.

The drug worked well in my particular case too, but the cure was as bad as the disease: my skin became so thin that I was plagued by skin breakage (stomp) and sub-cutaneous bleeding for years. My skin is has since recovered well, but now and then there is still an occasional blotch which lasts for a week or two. I mention this only because the same medication was prescribed (stomp) by Doctor 'Mangele' for a perceived case of 'balanitis.' I distrusted her medical judgement at the time and declined to smear that dubious stuff on my glans, where it would certainly have come (pardon) into contact with my inner foreskin with possible disasterous sexual results. The application of this medication to the genital areas is NOT (I learned just now on the web) recommended.

Question: Did the good Jewish doctor, unable to perform circumcision, resort to the next best thing?