Don't Choke On This!

A new research report is out linking a "chronic cough" with depression. Sigh. As I've noted before, I am tired of researchers painting absolutely every human ailment in terms of depression, as they recently have with teenage acne. It's a trend that makes me wonder if, going to logical conclusions, researchers might now recommend treating a cold with Paxil which has an elevated suicide risk attached to it and, once the patient offs himself, proclaiming that the cough is cured.

And, since I am in a smart-assed mood, would that chronic cough be from a cold or smoking 'da chronic? In which case, Dr. Dre isn't a doctor at all. No, he's an evil rapper out to give Americans depression. And that coughing at the beginning of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf?" It is obviously a cry for treatment with Cymbalta.