The California choice is clearly a sop to advertisers. In N Out? Really? I mean, for fast food it's good, and you can't beat the price. But it's still just a fast food burger.

I find that insulting. Like if they did a list of 50 best chickens in the US, would they give Kentucky to KFC?

It's my understanding that, with opiates, more pain = less side effects like sleepiness

That was my experience, other than with morphine, which apparently made me drunk-dial Buffistas and then pass out.

Crap. When Hubby takes one, he become alert and normal. I don't like what that's saying about his pain levels.

There are other factors, especially if he has to take it regularly, of course.

This is very true.

Bottom line, if it's helping him manage the pain, that's better than having all that pain with no relief.

And this is absolutely true.

I was tryng to figure out how I felt about that, Burrell. I talked myself into agreeing that In-N-Out is the burger to recommend across the whole span of California - there are better burgers but at individual restaurants and knowing how good Monsoon Burger is doesn't help anyone who is hundreds of miles from Fairfield.

To go back to Aurelia's question from last night, it looks like NBC won't make/announce it's decision on Chuck (or Life) until 5/19

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Bottom line, if it's helping him manage the pain, that's better than having all that pain with no relief.

Wrod. If I never have to hear him whimpering while unconscious again, it will be too soon.

His pain doc has mentioned implantable dispensing devices. What's the word on those? And god bless Medicare. Going on disability has been the best thing to happen to him, health wise. It's amazing the doors that opened once it was official.

His pain doc has mentioned implantable dispensing devices. What's the word on those?

I don't know much about those. I imagine that the theory is that they keep a more steady level of drug in the patient's body, because they would release the drug at precise time intervals (as opposed to human error when taking oral medication -- you forget, you run late, you take the drug with food that makes it less effective, etc).

My BIL has one, but they've kept screwing up the surgery so it hasn't been working correctly long enough to see how it is working.

In N Out? Really? I mean, for fast food it's good, and you can't beat the price.

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In-N-Out is the burger to recommend across the whole span of California - there are better burgers but at individual restaurants

I totally agree. Are many of the other states' choices a hat tip to chain burgers?

I don't even like In-N-Out that much, because of their special sauce. Off the top of my head, even allowing for that, I submit that the burgers at The Corner are better. And that's just for starters--I don't know many competing burger joints in the city of LA, never mind the whole state.

Completely unrelatedly, PMM & Bev, I bumped into Dark Angel S3 info as I was searching TWOP for discussion on The Unit (which has me totally confused recently).

- There were already a couple of treatments for Season 3 before it got cancelled. My favorite was the more developed one put forth by the show's regular creative team (the writers and producers). It had the Terminal City seige going on for a couple of episodes, ending with a big walk out. Basically, everyone was supposed to walk out unarmed and the army would have backed down rather than faced the PR nightmare of slaughtering hundreds of unarmed people. Logan would have become a transgenic blood junkie. He would have become obsessed with getting transfusions so he could keep walking. The virus would have been cured, but the transfusion thing, plus Max's increased daily involvement with TC (Logan never liked Max getting involved with other transgenics, even back at the very beginning in S1) would have broken Max and Logan up. Eventually, Max would have hooked up with Alec. The foundations of that relationship were already being slowly built up ever since "Hello Goodbye." Alec's emotional investment in Max was being built up long before that, even.

- The less developed rival treatment would have sucked balls. This was the one that was advocated by that goddamn deadbeat dad James Cameron, and Weatherly and Alba (who were trying to get themselves made into producers). Basically, it would have involved curing the virus and getting Max and Logan together. If I remember correctly, it also involved Alec leading a mutiny against Max. Both treatments included more about White's breeding cult and the Coming.

Are many of the other state's choices a hat tip to chain burgers?

I'm not sure how widely it's spread over Maryland and Virginia, but a lot of people in Metro DC swear by Five Guys burgers.

Winsteads in Kansas is a chain, I don't know how widespread though.