Oh, don't get me wrong, I would gladly take any drug they would give me, justified or not. I've just noticed a string of videos posted online where people seem to be getting heavily sedated for what seem like routine procedures. Its not that I'm casting moral accusations, I'm just more jealous is all.

No, financially, all I could do was save up to have it pulled and hope antibiotics took care of any lingering infection. The dentist warned me that having no tooth there could compound future problems, but what the fuck are you supposed to do when you have to save up money just to treat the potentially…

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You're welcome! I hope they offer you more general anesthesia when they pull the stick out of your ass!

I was never concerned with whether or not it was the sensible choice, I just don't like it when people with drugs don't offer me any.

Yeah, dental prices are horrific. A few years after the wisdom teeth, still with no insurance, I went in with a busted up molar that was starting to hurt. The dentist told me I could get a root canal for $1200, or have it removed for $180, cash up front either way. So long, molar!

When he quoted me the price, I had a fleeting idea to tell him I could get him a better deal than that..

It's a great listen that still bubbles up in my memory relatively frequently. It's pretty disheartening, from both a televisual and humanistic perspective, but I think it gets to the heart of the problems inherent in corporations attempting to market superficial "empowerment."

Am I the only one who ever had to get wisdom teeth removed with nothing but novocaine? Is heavy anesthesia the norm now? When my bottom two were removed I got laughing gas, no option for anything else, and by the time I got my top two removed, I no longer had insurance and they were abscessed. They gave me…

Is it wrong I get creeped out by people who see public parks and tree-lined walkways and immediately think that they'd be perfect places to abduct and/or molest children?

Yeah, it's a pretty dismal take-away from that segment. So many variables, no real answers. I can't help but think of it on the rare occasions I hear the Oxygen network mentioned.

The This American Life episode which interviews the producer of the game show aimed at teen girls the Oxygen network tried, and failed, to get off the ground is so horrifically depressing.

Yeah, except now they're teaching you that you better really enjoy the four-or-so years you spend hitting the books, 'cause afterwards you're going to be right back at that shitty job. Minus 4 years of incremental raises and a promotion to night shift manager.

So, like Iron Chef then. I can't say I would ever purposefully seek this show out. Unless maybe they made a crossover - Iron Ninja Warrior Chef. Sort of like chessboxing, but with running an obstacle course and cooking a 3-course meal, while Masaharu Morimoto throws kitchen knives and live octopi at you.

Are you sure? 'Cause it looks exactly the same. And it sounds exactly the same. And the whole obstacle set-up is pretty similar. And the announcers are just as annoyingly inoffensive. And the audience is composed of the same cheesily over-enthusiastic, obviously planted "actors." So basically, just throw in some…

Never having seen this before, am I wrong in thinking "Ninja Warrior" is somehow synonymous with "Gladiator?" This is just the Eliminator Challenge without Turbo and Ice, right?

I knew there was a reason I never bothered to own a car: Their goddam insatiable thirst for human sacrifices.

What children?

Eye-Roll.

I just looked that up, and had never realized Clinton's dad died that early. Maybe it's because I remember hearing him talk about his abusive step-father, so I just assumed there was always a two-parent dynamic at play? Not that Obama didn't have a long stretch with a step-father, but he's always played up the…