As someone that takes way too many drugs for my own comfort - Rage is only part of it. And I actually do think good food helps a lot. despite a couple of chronic conditions - I don't really get sick.

I totally agree that eating healthier is a good thing and can be a big contributor to general good health/vitality/wellness. I'm not objecting to that and saying "fuck healthy food; drugs rule! Everyone should wash down their Lipitor with some cheesy poofs and Lard Glug*!" My problem is when people hold up "healthy eating" as obviating the need for those horrible, horrible drugs that are really just a scam. It's just not an either/or thing for a lot of people. (And medication is not a scam.)

It's fantastic when lifestyle measures like diet (and activity) can prevent/improve some diseases -- and I am 100% aware that they can. But, unfortunately, that's not true for everyone. Some people have to take (for instance) blood pressure meds even as they chow down on roasted cauliflower and hit the elliptical. Sometimes some people just gotta do both, because food isn't a cure-all.

*(Contains neither lard nor glug.)

I was poking around on line to try to find a way to keep mosquitos and bitey things off the dog and found a recommendation to spray them down with lemon juice. Which seems reasonable enough and I might try it, but then the site started going on about this eliminates the need to FLOOD YOUR DOG'S SYSTEM WITH HARMFUL CHEMICALS, i.e. heartworm preventative and Jesus Christ, people.

this eliminates the need to FLOOD YOUR DOG'S SYSTEM WITH HARMFUL CHEMICALS

Mah dawg loves him some benzene.

My problem is when people hold up "healthy eating" as obviating the need for those horrible, horrible drugs that are really just a scam. It's just not an either/or thing for a lot of people. (And medication is not a scam.)

Yeah, you know who lived on organically grown vegetables and free-range, antibiotic-free meat? Pre-1492 Native Americans. This group lost ~90% of its population between 1492 and the 1700s due to diseases introduced by Europeans. Almost all of these diseases can be cured, prevented, or mitigated today by drugs. [link]

I'm not wild about some pharma sales tactics, but I definitely value their products.

Lemony-fresh dogs!

Mah dawg loves him some benzene.

Oh I still remember my high school chemistry teacher talking about how they used to love benzene and wash their hands in it and stuff, before they knew that was a bad idea!

I woke up and kept hitting snooze and then being confused what the noise was when it went off. Like, had a dream I downloaded some sort of spam alarm clock app that I couldn't figure out how to get it off my phone (in reality I just needed to WAKE UP)

My train was delayed about 90 minutes this morning (with me on it) because the train ahead of it had broken down. Then my boss texted me that his daughter had been in an accident and he was going to the hospital in Chicago.

Damn. At that point I stopped caring about the train delay.

Apparently my MRA-Republican/Libertarian brother sent my sister an article from Psychology Today (unprompted) about how this dude (the writer) who is an evolutionary psychologist is really a feminist, but OTHER feminists are giving him (and feminism in general) a bad name by refusing to believe in gender differences that are TOTES evolutionary psych. The other feminists including some academic types I couldn't comment on, and...Jezebel. Srsly???

I just don't even. I mean, yes, the fact that he opens his article with, that a lot of women don't want to be called feminists, is clearly showing that SOMEONE is "giving feminism a bad name", but methinks it is....not who he's pointing at. Ugh.

Also, while I appreciate the reminder that my body is still fertile, I do not appreciate the cramps. Or last night's migraine (which often happens this time of month--yay hormones changing all the time? Ick)

....I might be in a bit of a grumpy mood today.

Malaysia Airlines passenger jet missing in Ukraine near Russian border - Boing Boing

Oh shit.

eta: A Russian news agency says it was shot down by a missile.

Meeting went about as well as to be expected. I mean, we didn't get miraculously scooped up and signed to another contract, but that wasn't even in the realm of my expectations. Oh, and no one is being fired, either. But if you want to take the risk of quitting to protect your interests, all new vacancies will never again be this subcontract….

My mgmt is basically on the same page that this state of affairs is not only not to our personal benefit, but that they don't like the risk this is placing on the mission. It's going up the food chain and they really want all the unsugarcoated version of impact on the work.

Nothings happening fast and nothing will happen immediately (other than the suck) but I'm not pessimistic, either.