I'll probably get a lot of flack for posting this, but one of the things I'm looking forward to about elderly sex is NOT having to wear a condom.

I had that discussion with my 70-year old neighbor, who was quite sexually active until the day he died. He said he didn't use condoms because 1) there was no danger of pregnancy and 2) if he caught something that couldn't be cured he was already in his 70's anyway so he didn't care.

He ended up dying at 76 of something completely unrelated to sex.

As for providing condoms with E.D. drugs this would be a huge waste of money and yet another intrusion of the "nanny state". I bet most E.D. prescriptions are for married, monogamous couples anyway.

When I bought my house, I sat down and figured out what I could afford. Yes, I could have gotten a loan for twice that amount and gotten a much better house, but I thought it is better to be in a house I could pay for, especially during the inevitable bad financial patches everyone goes through.

I admit I felt some jealousy towards people at my income level who bought gigantic houses or houses in much better neighborhoods, but again I stuck with a smaller place that I could actually afford. If I knew that the government would bail me out, however, I would have bought a completely extravagant house in a great neighborhood.

It is common sense that it is foolish to buy a home you can barely afford. I don't see why the public has an obligation to bail out irresponsible people.

Let me make sure I understand this--Telecoms are innocent victims who should be excused from following the law because, amongst the thousands and thousands of lawyers they employ, not a single one knew the law.

My experience has been completely the opposite of what most here have written. For years, I had chronic insomnia--not just sleepless nights but staying up for two or sometimes three straight days and only sleeping an hour or two most other days. My friends teased me that it sounded like a great way to get things done, but the physical toll it took was not pleasant. I got a lot of colds, felt like a "zombie" half of the time, etc.

Every doctor I saw basically said "you need to learn how to relax" or "just lay in bed and calm down". Finally I found a doctor who sent me to a sleep lab (which I had to pay for myself and which was *not* cheap). The end result of all this, a prescription sleep aid. While it's not a perfect solution, finally being able to sleep more than four hours at a time has been a godsend. I've taken it now for three years--same dose, it still works. Am I an "addict"? Probably by some definitions, but this is far preferable to the condition I was in before. Would I like to stop taking it? Absolutely, and I have but then the problem just returns (beyond the expected "rebound insomnia").

The point is I feel I had to go through more than a year of needless suffering because doctors fear making patients "addicts". I remember my 78 year old dad in the hospital in agony being told he could have a Tylenol.

If there are "freewheeling doctors" out there prescribing dangerous medicines, I haven't encountered one--I would say most doctors are overly conservative re prescriptions.

Also, to those talking about drug company "greed"--the drugs that seem most abused, such as xanax and codeine, etc. are all cheap generic drugs. Big drug companies are making nothing on these drugs.

I've been visiting my ill dad and all he wants to do is watch TV news shows. It is truly frightening how, in a two hour time span, not a single candidate's position on anything was mentioned.

The stories covered:

* Chelsea Clinton gets asked about Monica Lewinsky.

* Obama is trying to become friendlier with working class people.

* McCain is embarking on a nostalgia tour.

And these are NEWS stations.

In my family so far my aunt is voting for McCain because he "seems like a nice man". My mom is voting for Obama for the same reason. When I ask them what issues they care about they get a blank look. True, this information can be found on the web but there's still an enormous block of people who don't use computers and get all of their information from television, which is purely an entertainment medium.

All of this may be true, but the American people are not as stupid as the media thinks they are. Ratings for the network news shows continue to decline. Fox News hasn't been doing much better lately. And does anyone under 40 even listen to A.M. radio anymore?

Flight Attendants should be replaced with nurses. Instead of meals and drinks, they can pump the passengers full of benzodiazepines. These are generic and cheap. Short acting ones for short flights, long acting ones for long flights. Keep everyone semi-conscious until ten minutes before landing. Then the seats can be even smaller and closer together.

I'm only being semi-facetious.

What Hillary is doing is a disgrace. She obviously plans to use backroom deals and political maneuvering to try to steal the nomination, and doesn't seem to care at this point if she hurts her own party or the country--it's become a race about her own ego. She keeps using some type of twisted math to justify why she is the "real" winner, claiming to have "won" a state where Obama wasn't even on the ballot.

If the tables were turned and she had raised more money, and done her homework and won the most delegates and caucuses, Obama would have conceded by now.

What if she pulls a Lieberman and runs as an independent?