hair and medicine

Today I learned that people put glop in their hair to make it feel dirty, and they'll pay $9 an ounce to do it. From that same article, it appears that if you get a guy to put styling putty in his hair, you get quotes like this:

"One thing I don't like: the fragrance. It smells like peaches and I'm not the kind of guy to wear food in my hair."

Alrighty then.

In real news, I learned that the New York Times has reported that chronic fatigue is real. So now if someone claims CFIDs sufferers are hypochondriac slackers, we can label them terminally ignorant. In a similar vein, The Washington Post reports that in the last fifteen years, doctors have started referring patients to chiropractors, so that indicates that chiropractic medicine is going mainstream, too. Next thing you know, people will start banning extraneous chemicals so people with chemical injuries and asthmatics can wander around loose, and the 'most physicians and researchers' cited in that last article will catch a clue and start understanding environmental medicine.

And last but not least, brought to you by my curiosity about bot flies, please enjoy the University of Florida's "Overview of 'Lumpy' Squirrels."