tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post6694580908289489886..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Postcards from Babylon...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-92028105540924981072010-03-17T02:06:14.464-04:002010-03-17T02:06:14.464-04:00According to Delta Dental, dental implant surgery ...According to Delta Dental, dental implant surgery is cosmetic. <br /><br />I suppose it's less cosmetic to grind down the two adjacent teeth to mere nubs just to have something to anchor their "not cosmetic" bridge to...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16879005734795005512010-03-10T21:48:04.435-05:002010-03-10T21:48:04.435-05:00In other news, some are wondering why companies ar...In other news, some are wondering why companies aren't hiring while said companies are <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/09/news/economy/unemployment_taxes/" rel="nofollow">getting cheoped</a> out of funds that could pay workers.<br /><br />None of it makes sense. It's like building a wall by taking bricks from the bottom and putting them on top. Gee....who was it who said that?<br /><br />I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. No amount of cosmetic surgery can make me get pretty.TJPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-73734333831681792462010-03-10T19:23:33.308-05:002010-03-10T19:23:33.308-05:00Jim,
"If they earned the money, then it is t...Jim,<br /><br />"<i>If they earned the money, then it is theirs to spend as they see fit.</i>"<br /><br />There is a world of difference between "shouldn't" and "couldn't".<br /><br />If they want to set their money on fire, hey, it's their money. I'll be pointing and laughing if they do, though. ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16944188036140271252010-03-10T19:14:49.696-05:002010-03-10T19:14:49.696-05:00If they earned the money, then it is theirs to spe...If they earned the money, then it is theirs to spend as they see fit. (Welfare money, OTOH...)<br /><br />Jim<br /><br />w/v: faces. I kid you not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20735074065391143932010-03-10T14:47:13.922-05:002010-03-10T14:47:13.922-05:00Hey, a person has to look good while waiting in li...Hey, a person has to look good while waiting in line for unemployment checks and the government cheese...<br /><br />WV: cheoped<br />The act of being cheated by a pyramid scheme?BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57471024695419245312010-03-10T12:16:57.429-05:002010-03-10T12:16:57.429-05:00"Only in America do people spend their entire...<i>"Only in America do people spend their entire lives so far up Maslow's pyramid that they have time to ponder such dilemmas."</i><br /><br />Well put. <br /><br />I once successfully woo'd a psychology nurse with heady talk of how I would ascend to self-actualization. Looking back on it with 19 years of hindsight, I don't believe it was my ownself that I was trying so hard to actualize. ;)Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57021075897208039012010-03-10T11:58:12.576-05:002010-03-10T11:58:12.576-05:00On t'other hand, it's about the ONLY part ...On t'other hand, it's about the ONLY part of medicine that hasn't been totally distorted by the dot-gov's regulations, subsidies or other meddling. Cosmetic surgery is the only partially-free-market (leaving aside all of the other government intervention in the market) in medicine.<br /><br />Look at how horrible the free market is. Why, the price of laser eye surgery is extortionate! It's been at double-digit increases...oops. Never mind. What started as multiple-thousands-of-$'s surgery is now, "ON SALE...today ONLY...both eyes for only $499!!!"<br /><br />So yeah, it can be considered a waste of resources in some regards, but it's still a whole lot closer to a free market than the stuff that Medicare covers.<br /><br />And as a side benefit, some of the research and practice into cosmetic surgery has applications in things like reconstructive surgery, where soldiers who've been hit with nasty, sharp fast stuff can have faces rebuilt.<br /><br />So just think of Big Star's last facelift as subsidizing the research on war wound reconstruction and it's not quite so bad.Blackwing1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44335690353229900772010-03-10T09:19:17.055-05:002010-03-10T09:19:17.055-05:00Well, if you're about to declare bankruptcy, i...Well, if you're about to declare bankruptcy, it's a fantastic investment--one of few things the bank can't take back! And it's not <i>your</i> fault you were born as uglier than a mule turn, so society <i>owes</i> you one!davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13579043129470256468noreply@blogger.com