dangerblond: all systems are go November 13, 2006
I went to the doctor today and the results of all my blood tests were normal. I’m not hormonal or thyroidal. It now appears that the most likely culprit is my antidepressant, Effexor. I had never heard that night-sweats were a side-effect of Effexor until he brought it up two weeks ago. After that, I googled Effexor and night-sweats, and, sure enough, there is a connection. I gather that waking up drenched all night long makes for a stressful, sleepy, irritable day. As soon as I read that, I made an appointment with the shrink so I can switch to something with some other side-effect. Let’s hope it’s anorexia!
Did you know that women have testosterone? It’s one of the things they check to see if you are menopausal. The doctor said that’s what makes women have sexual desire. “You have a normal level of sexual desire, right?”
“Well, I wouldn’t say it was normal. More like off-the-charts.”
I had to wait quite a while in the waiting room, long enough to read an entire People magazine. There was a woman in there in a wheelchair who was accompanied by her husband. He was wearing a cap that identified him as a Vietnam War veteran. He was angry and complaining about everything. She was murmuring to him to calm down. Suddenly, he went off on the national election results.
“They are going to get more soldiers killed! Just like Kerry did in Vietnam! That bastard!”
So, I guess if decorated war veterans like John Kerry had not publicly criticized the war in Vietnam, America could have “stayed the course” over there throughout the 1970s, and fewer soldiers would have been killed?
I appreciate this man’s service to our country, and he has the right to believe what he wants, but if people like him had not voted for George W. Bush in 2000, no American soldiers would have lost their lives in Iraq.
The other night Josh got on my case because I was slamming Republican senators and congresspeople who support the war and who have fighting-age children partying on daddy’s money instead of wearing the uniform of their country.
“Would you want your sons over there?”
No, I don’t. But if I really thought Iraq posed a danger to my country, not my country’s petroleum industry, I would be ashamed of my sons if they didn’t volunteer to fight. Leicester’s gay, so they wouldn’t take him, but he could damned-well take care of wounded soldiers or put on comedy shows for the troops.
I don’t understand why people can’t seem to put the shoe on the other foot. Just imagine how long and how hard we would fight if another sovereign nation invaded our territory. I can’t stand Florida or Texas, but if Cuba or Mexico laid a finger on either one of them, Dangerblond would be down there in the thick of it, blowing up Havana, nuking Cancun. After September 11, Americans wanted to see some blood in Afghanistan, and I’m not warm and fuzzy enough to blame them. We are fighting in Iraq to get control of a vast petroleum field, and the people who live there know it. Why would their reaction to our aggression be any different from, say, Texans?
Americans left Vietnam and the domino fell. All the other dominos . . . stayed exactly where they were. We stopped shooting those people and started doing business with them, which is exactly what we will do in Iraq. But our actions have destabilized that country, and when we leave it there will be more Iraqis killed. We owe it to the people who allied themselves with us to get them out of there. If we desert them, they will die. So, we’re going to buy their oil, like we would have anyway, and we have decided where the next great wave of immigration to America will come from. I don’t see how it’s a good idea for even one more American soldier to die for a cause no greater than that.
- Posted in : main, new orleans
- Author : dangerblond
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