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Snapshots: Viagra, Melanoma, and those Pre-Passover Blues

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No, the two have nothing to do with one another. Or they could, I suppose, if anyone thought Passover a sexy holiday, which would make for an interesting discussion that we will never have.  Let's start with this. (1) "Harmless" erectile dysfunction treatment associated with melanoma No more Viagra for you son. And Laura Berman , a famous sex therapist who has at least one clinic to treat women with sexual intimacy problems, will have to put her prescriptions on hold, rewrite one of her books, too. The results of a new study indicate that penile enhancement medication, also used for female sexual arousal, is linked to one of our worst cancers ever, melanoma. When I was young there was a song,  Nature's Way . Spirit, sings the soulful, ominous warning. It's nature's way of telling you dying trees, It's nature's way of telling you soon we'll freeze. We froze east of the Mason-Dixon line, and to the west, too, last winter. Or shvitzed . Hearing the as

Ivan Lopez: Could this have been prevented?

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Ivan Lopez screenshot Facebook  http://tinyurl.com/lfx3w9c Ivan Lopez shot 19 people yesterday, killing three at Fort Hood, Killeen, Texas. Five years ago, same army base, Nidal Hasan, an army physician, killed 13, wounded 33. Hasan has been sentenced to death. Lopez served 4 months in Iraq in 2011 driving a truck, served in the Sinai Peninsula, too, and the National Guard. He's not been injured, officially, in combat. In fact the army claims he didn't serve in combat. He either requested or was ordered a mental health evaluation, hence the transfer to Fort Hood from another base, according to one report.. His mother died of a heart attack in November last year, and the army gave him a hard time about going to Puerto Rico for the funeral. Granted a one day leave, he complained, was granted two. (Not much of a grief allowance, but typical in the military). The psychiatrist considered him nonviolent, prescribed Ambien for sleep. Follow-up in a month. Perhaps Lopez forgot to tell