Oh! You're right, Maria. I'd completely forgotten about her.

I just watched the episode of The Cosby Show where they meet Stevie Wonder. I am now earwormed with "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Just thought I'd share the earworm a bit.

Chumley is on full-blast LOOOOOOOVE mode this morning, and right now he's trying to ooze sleepily onto the keyboard....

Incidentally, this is why boys should be vaccinated against HPV as well. In addition to the chance that it does something we don't know about to them, even if they are asymptomatic they can pass it on to girls. If boys are vaccinated as well as girls you get a much better herd affect.

The thing that worries me is that while there are plenty of studies proving the vaccine is both safe and fairly effective in pre-18 girls, there's not really any evidence proving it's either in boys. I'd like to see a little more work done on that end of the health equation before it's made available or compulsory for everyone.

He was so naive, I wanted to smack him senseless. Like only crackwhores and energetically promiscuous gay men were likely to get infected with HIV. Grrr.

Maybe he was factoring in his freaky beliefs and smug attitude minimizing his chances of having sex once he was married?

Timelies all!

Another quiet Sunday. In a bit I'll go to pick up the refill on my eyedrops, and get food for the week. There are also tapes to be watched.

Thanks, Maria! It's all coming back--very slowly. They're weird about Neela, what with everyone being attracted to her.

I spent a spare moment this morning admiring a parked Mini Cooper, which was the old version (noticeably much tinier than the current version) which was parked between two contemporary station wagons for better contrast, and when I got closer I realized that it was a right-hand drive setup, too, with a stick. Hard core!

My boss collects those. When the new Mini came out, he put himself on a waiting list to get one of the first ones. But when he saw it, he decided not to buy it. He said that it's not a real Mini unless it leaves a puddle of fluids wherever it's parked.

The thing that worries me is that while there are plenty of studies proving the vaccine is both safe and fairly effective in pre-18 girls, there's not really any evidence proving it's either in boys.

Are there medications/vaccines that have proven safe in females but not males?

(Of course we should test it to the hilt in this regard, I'm just pondering things)

I know there are some medications that women shouldn't take or touch (well, pregnant women) but I think they involve hormones. And I know that for years most medications were ONLY tested on men [link] [link]

Even there it seems like dosing concerns or increased side effects, not dropping dead from it. IS there any major risk to, for once, giving men something that was tested on women instead of the other way around? Then again, what do I know? Until yesterday I thought swaths of children regularly died from measels, mumps and rubella.

Is there any major risk to, for once, giving men something that was tested on women instead of the other way around?

The most likely one I can think of is creating a generation of men who think they've been innoculated yet are still capable of contracting and transmitting HPV to partners whose fears have been eased by a vaccine that's ineffective in half the population. Note I'm not saying never, I'm saying find out if it will actually do any good before mandating compulsory vaccination.

The most likely one I can think of is creating a generation of men who think they've been innoculated yet are still capable of contracting and transmitting HPV to partners whose fears have been eased by a vaccine that's ineffective in half the population.

So, the risk wouldn't be to the male vaccinee; it would be to the herd, as it were. I didn't even think about that side of things. Interesting.