I’ll watch. I want to know how they get the metal out of the body once it’s in. 

Okay, but I don’t do windows.

Hi Linda, perhaps it’s just a matter of monitoring and adjusting the meds until you are feeling better. (?) It took a while for me and my doctor to find my right dose. My thyroid was "killed" by radiation in or around 2001, because it was overactive. I don’t know if my experience is typical or not, but I’ve never gotten back to my old self again. But I feel so much better than when the glad was malfunctioning, so I figure ‘that’s life.’ I must admit, though, I feel best when my weight is closer to ideal and when I’m active every single day (1 hour at the gym), but if I get off my routine with some weight gain or slack off the exercise, then I’m dragging again.  Hope this helps a little.

(LOL) Love you georgia fatwood!

I’ve never been able to escape stains. Sometimes I wonder if any drip ever every made its way past all obstructions to my lap. I doubt it. So some thing$ I wear only if eating/drinking will not occur. However, since we’re talking clothing, I did find out something about myself just yesterday: I looked down to see I now fit a stereotype—the old lady whose stockings sag around her ankles. I was horrified. And quickly removed the knee-high things and threw them away! Never again … 

Margo, please don’t "revise that." I enjoy your contributions to this website. Most especially when you just drop in unexpectedly to voice an opinion. You have a unique quality, a subtle complexity to your thinking/writing that is easy to enjoy and so often inspiration for conversation … Well, whatever you do from now on, know you have a fan.

macwoof woof, I don’t understand. Are you saying this happened to you? If so, my heart so deeply so sincerely so achingly goes out to you. 

I kinda agree with you, Margo. Both on the "attractive" note and on the fact that the incident(s) involved two consenting adults, neither of whom seems to have been unkind to the other. What the consequences are for him in his marriage is his own private affair. But, Margo, you brought up the idea of feminism, and a cute trick that Gloria Steinem and others often used to help make their points clear was to reverse the genders, like so: If in Letterman’s story only one fact was changed—that the TV show host had been a woman and not a man—what would such a dalliance mean to HER viewers?

I never liked the comb-over. Never liked the toupe. Those guys always struck me as a little weird, or at least pitiful. My brother started going bald in his 20s, and I always liked the way he looked when he stepped off his bike in his leathers, took off his helmet, and shook his balding head (plus long ponytail). I thought he was very masculine. Many years later, never having given baldness much thought at all, I was standing beside a guy I thought attractive (intelligent, funny, nice looking). He was sitting, and as he looked down at the papers in his lap, (heaven’s!) I reached over and lightly caressed his bald head. Lordy, was I startled — yes, at myself! It was as if my brain had disconnected from (well, you know what) and I did that without any forethought or fore anything at all. I jerked my hand back quickly. Blushing, a bit confused, I apologized and he said, to my further embarrassment, you know, rocky, I am living with someone … Ay-yi-yi. I figure now that long ago incident was a perimenopausal mishap, a weird disconnect of my id from my superego. Wrote to myself in bold permanent blunt-point black indelible Sharpie: NEVER DO THAT AGAIN. So far, so good. 

I’ll add it to my reading list, Chris. Thank you!

For many years I simply have refused to see any film this man has been involved with. And IMO those who seem to "support" him just don’t understand the damage done to a child who has been abused the way that man admitted to abusing her, unless one is such a child. This is all very deeply sad, and I’m so sorry his victim has had to face it all again. 

Ay-yi-yi, Baby Snooks, Leslie Stahl. It’s probably true. There are too many of us, and the "strong" already are fast upon the "weak." I won’t be around to see what becomes of our species, but it is in for a change. Is it to be the "Apocalypse," as religious zealots predict? Perhaps a leveling by nature via a killer virus or two, or as a result of our brazenly careless, misguided attempts at dominion over it. Or, perhaps, as in your metaphor, Leslie, nature will have us turn on ourselves in a determined fervor, igniting great wars that leave only the strongest … "Evolve or advance" is indeed the question. Do we have a choice?

Holey mackeral, we’d save that much? It’s our little everyday habits that add up, I guess. And, yes, you are correct about everything manufactured leaving a footprint. A little hyperbole on my part … Still, it seems out and out irresponsible that we blatantly continue this eons old habit of using fossil fuels when alternatives are within our reach. I hope our leadership—local, state, and national—helps us move toward cleaner practices as quickly as possible.