pizza pizza

I’m pretty sure the Little Caesar’s pizzas that can be had for $5.28 are getting thinner and thinner as time goes by.

Profit! Profit!

dead battery

My friend Neil jumped my car when I was stranded just now across town. When I got the car home, I noticed that my electric locks didn’t work. Turned it over… hey, what do you know, the damn thing won’t take a charge either. She’s dead, Jim.

This battery was supposed to last 2 years, not 9 months. What is now a useless expensive piece of lead and plastic is a Farm & Fleet brand battery, purchased in February of this year. What’s their jingle… “Find Value At Farm & Fleet!” I guess if I want to find value, I’ll have to look a little harder next time.

those poor, poor pharmaceutical companies

Why is it that pharmaceutical companies argue that they need strict patent controls so that they can innovate, when they spend 2.5 times more money on advertising directly to consumers than they do on R&D?

Does anyone actually think it’s reasonable for people to be “ask[ing] [their] doctor if (insert brand-name drug here) is right for [them]?” Aren’t doctors supposed to perform the diagnosis and prescribe what’s appropriate?

Tobacco companies can’t market directly to consumers on television anymore, because it’s illegal. I think it’s time that pharmaceutical companies went back to the business of manufacturing pharmaceuticals and lost the privilege to market direct to the public.