In my medical career days I encountered a number of charlatans pretending to be various medical professionals, primarily (but not limited to) the West coast endeavors I had undertaken.

These people sometimes had superficial understandings of those matters of which they were purported experts. Other times the lack of innate medical knowledge was an embarrassment to all involved.

Having worked for a person who freely admitted to me that he committed felonies every day as a function of his practice; and encountering the various others who did not have his credentials nor any discernable knowledge of health care either I had to get away from him and his fellow quacks at the earliest opportunity.

There is a youngster in Florida with a similar and ever expanding reputation for misrepresenting himself as a medical professional despite the charges and allegations of practicing medicine without a license.

One Malachi Love-Robinson who is but a chap of 19 years is back in the news battling 12 felony charges surrounding the practice of medicine without a license, robbing an 86-year-old woman's bank account, pilfering over $20,000 and last (but CERTAINLY not least) obtaining property in return for a worthless check, draft or debit card.

Now then, with attorneys jettisoning his case and legal troubles growing daily it would seem to be be prudent to finally cease and desist this fantasy career and get on with squaring with the state in an attempt to stop being that criminal which now appears in the news all over.

His five hour stay in Palm Beach County Jail ain't NOTHING compared to the big house where all the muscle bound inmates seeking intimacy will soon be probing each and every orifice he has with every protrusion they can produce.

It's hard to admit that life isn't turning out they way it's sometimes planned. Even harder is that direction in which he continues toward representing himself as something is is not.

I was a fool until I was 28. Regardless, I never headed down those paths to which young Mr Love-Robinson finds himself continuously attracted. If you want to practice medicine in the United States you need to go to medical school. Anything less is precisely that: something less.
 

So today I went and had my eyes checked out by the optometrist. Everything looked okay from his perpective ...
 

I have the expected presbyoptic changes associated with my ever advancing age but there are no diabetic changes and the cataracts aren't even close to being ready to remove.

Glasses were an arm and a leg. I was trying to skate under $200. Dream on. They were in excess of $500 and I ended up running to the bank for a cashiers check rather than hit my checking account or credit card for the fundage.

The guy told me that the glasses weren't going to make a significant difference in my vision because my prescription hadn't changed much ... my blur is due to the cataracts.

All-in-all with the insurance coverage I did squeak by in that range I was expecting to pay.

Now for the new specs to replace these for which I manufactured a nose piece from a couple of O rings and some superglue.

They will still work in a pinch if I lose the new ones temporarily as sometimes happens.

Sometimes the mere presence of ads aren't enough.

There are a lot of sites out there who throw a pop up telling you how out of the goodness of their heart they're letting you view their content for "free". Many even go as far as to inform you as to how many "freebies" you have remaining.

Anyway, the search engines who place me in their clutches lose veracity in my book and if you're in a place that makes you view a certain number of ads from specific companies, or places a counter in your midst so you know they're looking for something in return for access to their resource you may just want to reconsider who or where you are.
 

I decline to be stalked by some predatory web site nor utilize some search engine being paid to place me there.

Sites such as these have conceptual problems reminiscent of the dotcom bubble where the substance stayed while the concepts went belly up.

Your ecommerce model may be telling on you and your money grubbing porno jargon oriented company.
 

The news threads yesterday evening were quite amusing. There were multiple stories about cryptids ... those animals which are said to exist outside those verified factual realms resulting in their being disputed or unsubstantiated.

Well. Two of them caught my eye because they had pretty good screen captures and videos replete with full motion action and I tell you, they weren't even compelling at all.

The "bigfoot" sighting was from a dog wearing a gopro camera and it looked as though the dog knew whomever was in the costume due to it's reaction (actually, lack thereof).

Then there was a 'chupacabra' which looked a bit more on the cgi end of reality than that composed of the physical world itself, i.e., it was even less believable than the totally ridiculous bigfoot video.

Anyway, a chupacabra is supposedly "dog like" and not walking upright in a human fashion and the yeti ... let's just say that bigfoot had a distinct fluff about him that just screamed retail.