Hobson'sChoice TV

Saying for the day: All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
I saw a TV commercial the other day that bothered me. It would have bothered me more if I was a woman. It was for some kind of pill that woman take to keep their bones strong.
The advantage of the pill in the add was that in addition to giving the lady stronger bones it provided some additional protection against breast cancer. It didn’t prevent breast cancer, it didn’t heal breast cancer, but it made it less likely that she would get it. Still to decrease one’s chances of breast cancer has got to be a good thing.
But the add went on if you take this pill you increase your chance of having a stroke. It won’t cause a stroke but it will increase your chance of getting one.
So here is the poor woman’s problem. Does she want to increase her chance of having breast cancer or does she want to increase her chance of having a stroke.
If she dumps her present medicine and goes to this wonderful new pill she gives herself a little added protection against the dreaded breast cancer. But by the same act she increases her chance of having a stroke. Should she do it?
Now she has Hobson’s choice.
She needs to chose between the possibility of pain, losing a breast, even death on the one hand and the possibility of life as a drooling invalid on the other.
Which possibility do you prefer?
Once you have seen the add you have to make a choice.
Not changing and pretending you never saw the add leaves you with a greater chance of breast cancer.
Modern medicine is so good to us.
So are TV commercials.


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#### News from Pigeon Falls-The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal Tommy UK finding himself in an empty town called his uncle. His uncle called the State Police , who thought he was crazy but sent a car to investigate. While he was waiting for them to come Tommy UK was talking to the people who had come oin on the morning train when he noticed something strange. The people he was talking to were becoming transparent. He could see through them. Then suddenly they were gone and he was truly alone. The question that went through his mind is “ Why am I still here?”
That’s when the State Police Car showed up. Tommy UK tried to tell them how the people he was talking to faded away but they wouldn’t listen. They checked all the buildings and then called in. The State Police Post contacted the Railroad and asked that all passenger trains to Pigeon Falls be halted until further notice. Two more cars were dispatched to Pigeon Falls.

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