There are "three-point" trailer hitches; they are triangular with two points attached to the towing vehicle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH4UW2r3ew

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Indeed. My first two read fluently by the time they were 4 - I read beyond high-school level in the first grade - and aside from attitude problems did quite well in school. The third wasn't able to read, so I put him in a pre-school, which did nothing for him. By the time he was in first grade, the teachers were making snarky remarks about his home environment. Apparently they missed the part about his siblings' abilities, with one of them even in the gifted and talented program. He was finally diagnosed with learning disabilities after two miserable years of fighting the system, after he was also diagnosed with a mild form of epilepsy, and in spite of barely passing most of his elementary and middle school classes and failing the rest, was judged "not disabled enough" to get any special help other than what I could give him. We persevered, and he finally went on to make the Dean's list in a local community college, majoring in accounting of all things, and manages a large health food store's warehouses, while one of his brothers didn't even finish high school and runs a forklift in a Rubbermaid warehouse thanks to his wife's parents' influence, and the other who was in the gifted and talented program ended up flipping pizza dough.

Just don't try it in Texas.

Indeed. Some years ago I worked in the medical records (excuse me... Health Information Services) department of a clinic with the University of Miami. More than once I saw a doctor leaving the building on his way home with a bag full of medical records. This was quite illegal. And, of course, our department got blamed when the patient came in and his records could not be found.

Way back in 1967 I wrote a term paper for my 11th grade English class on the tobacco industry. I was able to find many references to a "lung cancer epidemic" in the mid-1900s that alarmed the medical community. For example http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,807357,00.html

Turned out to be caused by tobacco use as pushed by the tobacco companies. Servicemen during WWII got a pack of cigarettes in their daily ration packs, generously donated by the tobacco companies. They knew even then that it was highly addictive. I grew up sucking on candy cigarettes. All the movie stars and "cool" people smoked. Only the chronic asthma and bronchitis caused by my parent's smoking, that still plagues me to this day, kept me from ever smoking myself, until I wrote that report and realized just what was going on. It started out to be a paper on the advertising industry, until I found out how much the tobacco industry was spending on advertising - as I recall for just one year, something over a million dollars in 1952, which was a lot in those days. My English teacher gave me an A+ and quit smoking...for a month.

Anybody else remember television in the early 1950s, the big wooden box, the tiny screen, the guy in the white coat with a stethoscope around his neck showing you the graphs proving how good smoking BrandX cigarettes were for your heart?

Nonsense. Worksheets with pictures, the kid is supposed to put the pictures in the proper sequence - the dyslexic kid couldn't figure it out. It's not a problem with reading per se, it's a problem sequencing. I get numbers backwards all the time, as well a left and right, sometimes even up and down. But I was reading at 9th grade level in the 1st grade. My dyslexic kid would say "stairsdown" for downstairs, and "antarz" for Tarzan. We persevered, and he later went on to college, for accounting, and got on the Dean's List.

As a parent of two "normal" children and one badly dyslexic child, and having spent the same amount of time playing, singing, reading, drawing, coloring with all three, this was obvious. By the time my dyslexic child was 2, I knew he had something going on. Before that, actually, but nothing definite until then.

Indeed. I was having health problems related to allergy treatments, and took A, E (multitocopherol) and C for several months, feeling better as time progressed, and after three or four months the health problems disappeared. Now, I can't take even small doses without feeling negative effects. So if it's needed it will benefit, if not, it won't. But then apparently most people simply don't have the common sense to know the difference.

Fumes from overheated teflon pans will kill parrots and other cagebirds.

Well, I would presume we could add this guy to the list... http://www.clarionproject.org/news/imam-temple-mount-let-america-be-destroyed#

I don't use passwords with my wifi router. I use the MAC filter. Only the devices I add to the list can access my router. Plus my house is wired for Cat5. Good luck breaking into my systems.

Norwich, Connecticut, around 1980.