Cease the wonders

As I burrow through things you don't want to know about - prescription drug formularies of the major insurers - here's some debris from the past few days.

In case you're interested in the likely source of my brother's mental retardation (face it, autism is a purely PC term), check this article out.

In case you wondered why my little vacation posts stopped, well, it didn't seem right to waste my last precious California days writing about it. Why blog when the beach beckons? The Aquarium of the Pacific rocks, especially the bat rays, who behaved much like dogs in their open tank by begging to be petted.

In case you wondered why the beer blog hasn't been update in months, here's a taste.
My microbrew tour of Long Beach had only two stops, but each proved fruitful. In a chalice, Rock Bottom served up the Oxidizer, a double IPA that sidestepped the trappings of the style. Belmont Brewing Company offered the best microbrewed Belgian white I've had, left me to stagger back to Alicia's Euclid Avenue apartment on Monday.

In case you wonder about where America is headed, I give you the words of this pet store pundit/clerk imparted to me: "People really amaze me. That woman [walking out of the store] got home, discovered her $1.99 fish died, then drove the 20 miles back here to demand a new one. It cost her more in gas than she paid for the fish. Now, a $10 fish? Sure. But for a $1.99, you let it drop."

In case you wondered why Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas doesn't include Zyprexa on its formulary .... wait, you didn't I did. And now I need to figure out why.