Nice article, I feel more informed for having read it.

Thank you!

Though, I admit, I had no idea what COX-2 inhibitors did that made the heart do the bad funky. So I learned something. Knowledge!

Yay!

I like the phrase "made the heart do the bad funky." I want to retroactively work it into my article so my editor can slash it out.

We no longer have a coffeemaker. I boil water in the kettle and filter 3 cups of DH's more mellow preference, directly into his thermal carafe, and two cups of my darker roast into my carafe. I got tired of wiping up spills when the coffeemaker urped, and arguing over which coffee we were going to use, and decanting from the coffeemaker decanter to the thermal ones. This takes less time, is neater, the coffee's hotter, and we each get exactly the amount we want.

You people claiming to be the true queen coffee addict of the world make me laugh.

Me too. This whole conversation is making me laugh, since my power was out this morning, and I am now considering a) either getting some of the really bad coffee in our kitchen, or making an emergency starbucks run, and b) if I can leave early enough to buy a french press on my way home.

We're a Melitta cone filter household too. The coffee's better than what comes out of most automatic drip machines, and they're faster, cheaper, and completely unbreakable.

I like the phrase "made the heart do the bad funky."

It's a little-known medical term.

coffee for functioning, not coffee for pleasure.

This is the only coffee I drink.

Ideally, they're both.

It's a little-known medical term.

Heh. That reminds me of Butter Battle, when I played Dr. Zook. It was written by a friend of mine, and he was directing, so we were often suggesting lines (three of us put together a whole mini-scene making reference to another musical going on at the time). One of my lines was, "The Lady Jane is loony as a mad corsair!" And I came up with this calculator schtick, whereby I pressed a bunch of buttons on three different calculators, and then on the last one, I turned it upside down (8008135) to read the diagnosis.

That's what I used during the performances, but I had had something else before, and I used it during the pick-up rehearsal. I did, "The Lady Jane is loony as a mad corsair!...It's a medical term." One of my co-stars thought it was really funny and wondered why I hadn't been doing that the whole time.

I have one cup of coffee every morning. (Okay, lately it's been 2.) That's it for caffeine. But lord help the person who gets between me and my cup.

This is me. Be prepared for crankiness, especially at work, before I've had my morning caffeine.

Thanks, Robin! (Did you understand it? Did anyone understand it? This is a key issue here. My editor tried to cut down my use of big words as much as possible.)

I understood it, and was glad I read it even aside from knowing the author--I've heard "COX-2 inhibitor" tossed around so much on the news, all without knowing what COX-2 was or why anyone wanted to inhibit it in the first place.

Good clip.

WRT coffee, neither DH nor I drink it. I'm one of those freaks who drinks soda for breakfast; he just does without caffeine until lunch. We used to have a French press for company--used to, because it was a little too close to the edge of the counter, and last week I was carrying a big load of laundry through the kitchen (since that's how you get to the laundry room) and knocked it off. I'll have to make sure to buy another before my parents visit again, because they're a pair of addicts for sure.