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Ok, is it just me?  I admit, we like to watch the national news at dinner.  I guess that’s the first thing I should be worried about.  But assuming that might be okay with one or two of you, permit me to rant a bit.  Every few minutes of this half hour show (I should clock it to see just how often) the commercials kick in.  And they are all about medications.  Are my bones brittle?  Am I depressed?  Is my cholesteral too high?  Well if so, the nightly news is going to help me out.  But wait!  First the list of the many ways the help the pharmaceutical companies offer in pill form might harm me.  And those words “complications” or “in rare cases…..”  are always followed by some catastrophic ending as a result of seeking relief.   I actually believe those slim numbers could be 100% true for me.  So were I to succomb to taking of of these fix-it-all pills, I might get a permanent solution I don’t want.

Not only am I educated by watching these commercials, I’m stressed out, anxious and angry.  And the dinner hour news ads are almost exclusively pharmaceuticals.  So when I remember to do it I mute the commercials.  But as you might imagine, I either forget to unmute and miss the news when it returns or I just forget to mute in the first place and the cycle goes on.  Watching the news during dinner becomes an active task with the remote.  Fork-Remote-Fork-Remote. Not fun.   Newspapers are dying and expensive (I’m sad about that).  I do get a lot of news here on the internet.