Better living through pharmaceuticals...

I see before me on the coffee table...

prescription Ibuprofen (800mg)
Clindamycin (300mg)
Monistat 1 (for the yeast infection that will inevitably ensue from taking the Clindamycin)
generic ranitidine tablets (75mg) [AKA Target-brand Zantac]

Is it bad when you have to take medication for the side effects of the medication?

I cracked a tooth that was already slated for root canal and it's gotten infected. Yippee. The bad news, believe it or not, is that I can't get the root canal until the 20th. I'm on the call list in case of a cancellation, but still.

The acid reducer is just because I'm sick to death of the taste of acid in the back of my throat.

Whatever happened...

General thoughts, in the form of song lyrics swiped from Kander and Ebb, on things that pokeyburro and jcsbimp got me to thinking about. This is as good as it gets until some homework gets done.

Whatever happened to Miss Manners's and Emily Post's strictures on polite social conversation, i.e., the tenet that one should generally avoid discussing politics and religion, especially in a situation where one knows that it may cause a ruckus? And for heaven's sake [song cue]:

Whatever happened to fair dealing
And pure ethics
And nice manners?
Why is it everyone now is a pain in the ass?
Whatever happened to class?
...
Whatever happened to Please may I
And Yes thank you
And How charming?
Now every son of a bitch
Is a snake in the grass
Whatever happened to class?
...
Oh, there ain't no gentlemen to open up the doors,
There ain't no ladies now there's only pigs and whores
And even kids'll knock you down so's they can pass
Nobody's got no class!!!

Whatever happened to old values
And fine morals
And good breeding?
Now no-one even says oops
When they're passing their gas
Whatever happened to class?
...
Oh, There ain't no gentelmen that's fit for any use,
And any girl will touch your privates for a douse
And even kids'll kick your shins and give ya sass
Nobody's got no class!

All you read about today is rape and theft
Jesus Christ, ain't there no decency left?
Nobody's got no class! ...

(With many and profuse apologies to Kander, Ebb, Fosse, jcsbimp, and pokeyburro.)