Bovie Medical Insights

I enjoyed the article on avoiding jet lag, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal recently.  If you missed it, it is attached for your reading pleasure.  Much of what is said is true, but that isn’t how I do it.  They do talk about a sleeping pill and coffee during the day, and those methods are acceptable to me. 

I have had a beard for over thirty years.  It was black once, and now it is grey.  But the part of shaving that has always been uncomfortable is shaving the neck.  So when I saw, in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, an article “The Grooming Kit” about Jeff Raider’s online shaving company Harrys.com, it caught my eye.  Apparently, Raider upset the high-quality eyewear industry and is now setting out to do it in shaving. Any guy knows that the razors he buys have a very high profit margin in them for Gillette or whomever.  Harry’s seems to combine German manufacturing at a much lower price than the big guys, plus no tax and free shipping and handling.  I ordered my razor and some blades Sunday but the starter kits were sold out, as were most of the handles.  Writing about an improved shave is like telling a golfer he is going to save a few strokes on his score.  In both cases, they are going to buy it!  It seems like a great deal.  

A 11/13/12 WSJ article titled, "Looking Past the Fiscal Cliff to Fixing Taxes," pointed out that the last time the US tax code was seriously adjusted goes back to 1986.  This was before Al Gore's Internet had much commercial value, before the Euro, before most of us had cell phones, and before the first baby boomer was old enough to retire.  

Alright all of you republicans and democrats elected to serve us, it is time for you ladies and gentlemen to work together for as reasonable a solution as possible.  Time is wasting and before you know it we will all fall off the fiscal cliff together.  No more drawing lines in the sand or forcing each other into a corner.  Time is running out, so get to work please.

I've still got a mathematical problem with two guys spending $6,000,000,000.00 to get a job that pays $400,000.  Kind of like our country, you can't spend more than you take in for an extended period of time.  It is bad business, it doesn't work!  It reminds me of a scene from the movie with Kevin Kline, where he played in the movie "Dave" a lookalike president Bill Mitchell, and had his accountant come to the White House and look at the books.  The accountant said something to the effect that you've got a real problem here.  Well, we've got a real problem here and something has to be done.  Here is an article from a group of CEO's that have a suggested plan of attack...enjoy!

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Hurricane Sandy made a mess of the Northeast, and disasters in other places are a good reminder that we should all investigate our backup plans.