I Read It In The Newspaper

Byron White was a Supreme Court Justice from 1962 until his retirement in 1993. He once said that he reads the sports' page of the newspaper first every morning to see what mans' successes were the past 24-hours then he turns to the front page to read of mans' failures. Perhaps that thought would be debated in 2017. In any event, Justice White was suggesting that items appearing in his morning newspaper gave him an insight into 'Life in this America.'

I read two newspapers everyday. If I would subscribe to the idea that those papers hold a clue to what's up in the good old U S of A, THEN based on the most often appearing articles of print...I'm going with the following: When American men reach age 50, they cannot hear and they are having problems getting an erection. Four days a-week my newspapers have a full page 'hearing aid' advertisement and every day there is a photo snap-shot of a couple in an intimate embrace with a caption asking "Are you ready when she's ready?"

That said, I would ask you to digest this footnote: Erectile dysfunction medication and subsequent treatment is insured by most insurance carriers whereas hearing aids and hearing loss treatment is mostly 'uninsured.' Lesson? Old men in America who make the insurance-rules are not interested in 'what she's saying.'

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