WTF?
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City is giving out free Viagra and other impotence drugs to men 70 and older. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard says the city is implementing the plan because sexuality “has a lot to do with quality of life and our happiness.”
City Health Secretary Armando Ahued says the government will start handing out doses of one or two Viagra, Levitra or Cialis pills on Dec. 1. They will be distributed at three centers that specialize in sexual health for the elderly. The men will receive medical examinations before receiving the pills.
It’s a strange world. No word on any possible distribution of vibrators to women 70 and older.
Cigarettes will be optional.
How about birth control? Sputter.
Cold War history buffs get a present from the National Security Archives.
Great!
Many thanks, BooMan, for this reference. I can read up on my old outfit.
U.S. Health Care really is below the third world.
and he goes into the pharmacist with a prescription for Viagra. The pharmacist looks at the guy, looks at the prescription, looks at the guy, shrugs, and starts dispensing the prescription.
“Can you cut those pills into quarters for me?” the guy says.
The pharmacist looks up at him. “You won’t get an erection if you don’t take the full pill,” he says.
“Erection?” the old guy says. “I’m 90 years old. What the hell would I do with an erection? I just want it to stick out far enough so I don’t piss all over my shoes.”
Funny, but what is your point? Eventually, old men give up peeing standing up.
It was a joke.
Funny you should mention this, though. Our family went to see Bill Cosby a week or two ago. One of his routines started off with, “I want all you guys who are 48 years of age or older to raise your hands.” A bunch of us did. He continued: “I want you to listen to me very carefully. You listening? Okay . . . It’s OK to sit down. You know, when you . . . yeah.” And then he launched into the story of how he decided it was OK to sit down. I won’t repeat it here, because it’s long and exceeds my quota of bathroom humor for this thread, but it was pretty funny.
There was a point? I thought it was nothing more than a joke.
We don’t have to take everything seriously, do we?
A few years ago, just as Fox was going out I believe, Mexico voted in the dead of night to legalize drugs. The NYT hilariously said it was just a “limited set of drugs” yeah: marijuana, cocaine, meth, heroin, acid, ecstacy, even PCP, all the bigs. The mayor of San Diego called Ahnold, who called Bush, who got it shut down.
I was wondering about the politics of this. Was it an attempt to shut down the drug gangs decisively, or was this the drug gangs attempt to create a Vegas and go legit, Lansky style? I’m surprised they thought they could get away with it. Bush would find a reason to go to war over that. Maybe it will come up again, though I would hope in more gradual form. I’m against the drug war, but I might want to be a bit more cautious than to legalize everything all at once.
Really hard to believe
when you consider that Mexico is majority hardline Catholic. It was only within the last few years that Ireland struck down their laws against abortion, and they had kept them for the same reason.