Tag Archive: Epilogue

In closing, Drugs were not necessarily the answer in a year marked with the ups and downs of its various manifestations.  The legal (a.k.a. expensive patent) drugs designed to get us through life’s little aches and pains are actually killing us.  Their non-patentable (and some say more effective) competitors (e.g. Marijuana) remain illegal. Meanwhile, across the pond, the top secret poisoned drugs designed to kill pesky political threats of the Ukrainian kind, don’t and the ones that could be given to millions of Africans to save their lives, won’t be.

So there you have it.  In the Chinese Year of the Monkey, an overly stressed west chose to vote using a technique that is best described as the “monkey pick.”  If you don’t believe me, look who Time Magazine voted for their Person of the Year (of the Monkey).   And why do you think he really visited Canada? He stopped in only two provinces, Ontario and Nova Scotia.  Both offer free flu shots.  Coincidence… I think not.

So there you have it.  The Chinese calendar had 2003 pegged as the Year of the Goat.  But on my calendar 2003 will go down as the year of the “Chicken.”  Over the past year we have been told to: beware of flying, beware of weapons of mass destruction, beware of beef, beware of breathing, beware of breathing in Toronto, beware of Toronto, beware of mosquitoes, don’t drink the water, avoid exposure to sunlight, get flu shots, beware of hospitals and beware the rising loonie.  Oh, and lets not forget that the Americans think we are chicken, which probably ain’t so bad since chicken and egg stocks over the past year have gone through the ceiling.

So there you have it, the year 2002 will go down in history as the year of the Mo_____  (Go ahead, fill in the blank – you must have guessed by now … or are you one of them there, “Id 10 Ts” I’ve been hearing so much about over the past year).

I hope all of you managed to have a good time in 2002 or, at bare minimum, saved enough brain cells so as not to be suckered into politics.

So there you have it, the year 2001 will go down in history as the year of mad cows, madmen and medical mysteries.  Did I mention that, over Ma’s 7day stint in the hospital, mad cow disease was the only diagnosis that they didn’t make at one time or another?

I hope you and yours have had a good year or, at bare minimum, you saved some brain cells and hid your stem cells.