HOW'D YOU LIKE TO GET HIT WITH THIS IN A HURRICANE?

I had to replace the rotting frame of my front door. I planned on putting in a new door. Then I was told that a new law in Miami Requires all entry doors to open out, and one can no longer have a mail slot. Idiocy!  A door that opens out is no safer in a hurricane, and I think less so, as a high wind could rip it off its hinges and send it flying. Plus if you can't have a mail slot then everyone must have a mailbox. In a hurricane that creates thousands of missiles of steel, wood, aluminum, etc. Many with those cute little flags that slice your eyes out. What idiots came up with these rules, which I can ignore since I kept my grandfathered-in, inward opening, mailslotted door.

• Right now while we are suffering under the under the worst president in America history, let us remember the one most considered the best, Not only was FDR our greatest president, but by sheer luck his wife, Eleanor, was our greatest First Lady.  Together they worked to make America stronger, healthier, more secure. And what he achieved he did under the painful burden of a crippling illness. Using them as a standard, America has been brought very low, not only with our clown of a president, but also with the unpatriotic Republican congress. Sadly the quote below would require changing the word "small".

THE SAD STATE OF ADVERTISING.

Having been a successful copywriter for 40 years,I am particularly critical of the low quality of TV advertising today. At the moment I can't think of a single ad I would put in the Advertising Hall of Fame if there were one. But I can think of many commercial for which the advertisers should fire their agencies. One that stuns me is for Kraft which shows a man pushing a young child in a swing.
She keeps yelling "higher" and he complies until she apparently has gone flying off . While wonders if she's dead or merely crippled we see her eating Kraft's Dinner. Huh?I don't get it. Another of the many commercials you never want to see more than once, if that often, is for Xfinity,masters of mediocre ads. This shows fairy tale characters sitting around in what appears to be a group something session. The dialog is weak, the costuming absurd, the acting is pathetic, and message seems to be the A T & T have been lying about their coverage. As user of Xfinity, I can hardly credit them with the kind of superior service they claim to provide. And despite doing dozens of commercials they have never once pronounced "internet" correctly.

PILLS. TABLETS AND SPRAYS.

Recently when I went to the dermatologist he said I had rosacea and prescribed a cream to treat it. This surprised me since I wasn't aware of an obvious reddish blotch on my face where he pointed it out. Anyway, I bought the cream which came in a small tube and cost $65. I have been applying it diligently for a week,  and though I never saw signs of rosacea, I now have a rash in all the places I used it. I still think the world of my dermy, who has addressed many real problems. Still it makes one wonder just how necessary are all the medicines we are prescribed. Are the side effects worth the benefits? My blood pressure medicine gives me a chronic cough. My cholesterol drug which I stopped taking caused aches. One has only to watch the endless pharmaceutical commercials to ask oneself is having clearer skin really worth risking cancer or sudden death. Or if any improvement in health is worth the list of possible side effects that one might have to endure. Hmmm. I think when I turn 80 (only five years from now) I'll stop taking all medications and see who I really am.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING.

I cannot believe that The Shape of Water won any awards, much less best picture. This absurd fairy
tale of a dumb (not speaking) girl falling in love with a aquatic creature was ridiculous. The film was filled with illogical sequences, like a bedroom filled to the ceiling with water and none leaking out. The villain of the piece was so over the top as to be laughable and one could see her closeted father
soon to make a pass at a counter server a mile away. Basically this was a ridiculous sequel to the black and white 1954  B picture The Creature from the Black Lagoon. I wisely stopped watching the Academy Awards years ago when it started recognizing nonsense like this and last year's laughable
La La Land. If anyone who reads this sees this film and loves it, I would truly like to know why.