I'm currently carting around 200 books in my Kindle.

Bacon is BAD for you? NOOOO!!!! I REFUSE to believe it!!!

Try a real e-reader, not that Sony piece of crap. I would have thrown that Sony against the wall the first time it took an hour to do anything. Try a bottom-end Kindle. It's way better than what you describe.

Either boomers and millennials are completely different, the millennials need to try a REAL e-reader or I'm unusual. I like reading on my e-ink Kindle with no back-light better than reading a printed book.

An interesting article from Car & Driver magazine, June, 1980.

The conclusion?

"The test is over. It's obvious our subjects are as high as they're going to get. It is also obvious—and a little disappointing—that their driving abilities as determined by our two tests have not been particularly impaired, have not shown dramatic deterioration."

Visit the link for more details, including comments by an assistant research scientist specializing in drugs and their effects on driving at the Highway Safety Research Institute in Ann Arbor. (Hint -- the Car & Driver results are consistent with other tests.)

Are you paranoid if people are trying to do exactly what you think they are?

According to the University of Florida it's malaria that has been eradicated, not the Anopheles mosquito.

Untrue. There are fields near my house that have been in corn continuously for at least 5 years. When the price of corn is high, it's worth buying tons of fertilizer. It probably has all of the bad effects that you write about, but it happens.

Pack of sadists at Microsoft?

I've been as high as -7.50 in both eyes. As my presbyopia develops, it's dropped to -7.00 / -6.50. My wife is higher still. Your long eyeball explanation is correct, though.

I have a pair of bifocals (non-progressive, as I don't wear them often). My opthamologist recommended normal bifocals over progressives as I usually wear contacts (only need glasses for reading). He said that the progressives take quite a while to get used to.

I use a single-prescription pair of reader glasses (-1.5) for computer work -- and they are less than what I use for reading books and newspapers (-2.0) as I usually sit further from the monitor than I hold printed material for reading. My opthamologist recommended the cheap ones from the drug store as opposed to a custom made pair. He said that's what he generally recommends unless someone has a dramatic difference between eyes.

I am a Christian. I got a chuckle out of Tyson's post and I suspect many other Christians did as well. Good flamebait catches even those with a sense of humor.