Thousands will come together on Sunday, April 22 on Miami Beach for the 24th Annual AIDS Walk Miami.

The walk will benefit Care Resources and honor those associated with the horrible disease..  The walk will begin at 9am on the west side of the Miami Beach Convention Center and registration will open at 8am.

For more information click here!

Join Gordon Nebeker and all of his beautiful photography on Friday March 16.  Nebeker will be showing off his art at the Law Office of Cal Steinmetz from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm as part of Island City Art Walk.

Location Information: 2301 Wilton Drive, Suite 3

Wilton Manors, FL 33305

LL Cool J is one of my favs!  He’s fresh off of the Grammy’s and is most recently known for his acting endeavors.  Let’s not forget about LL’s gangsta rap days, though!  ”Mama Said Knock You Out” anyone?  There’s no denying his sumptuous lips and those ginormous muscles.  My favorite LL Cool J moment has to be any time he was shown in “Deep Blue Sea” with the bird.

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There are few things as private as the medicines we take. You can imagine asking a decent acquaintance who they voted for in 2008, who they’ve dated in the past year, and which family member they hate the most. But I’ll bet it makes you feel queasy to imagine asking them, “Hey! That little blue pill I saw in your bag. What’s that for, anyway?”

It’s no wonder then that America’s problem with overmedication hides in plain sight. While we’re all dimly aware that we take a lot of pills, we have no intuition of how big the problem is. And when you lay out the stats, the figures are nothing short of terrifying. Even though we take tons of pills, they seldom actually work. So while 1/2 of all Americans take a prescription drug and 1/4 of women take an anti-depressant, prescription drugs only seem to work 30% of the time. Meanwhile, 85% of new drugs have been found to have little or no benefit. And those miracle anti-depressants? They don’t even outperform placebos.

As you might have guessed, this issue is blamed on the drug companies, which spend far more money pushing their drugs with doctors than they do on research, and the FDA, which allows them to market the drugs they sell despite their limited effectiveness.

Doctors, in the meantime, straight up get paid to prescribe new drugs. If you’ve ever wondered why so many young, energetic women are making $250,000 a year to be pharmaceutical representatives, there’s your answer.

No doubt, doctors and pharmaceutical companies make for troubling dance partners. Without their cozy ties, perhaps the problem of overprescription wouldn’t be so bad.

While drug companies indeed have a vested interest in marketing their drugs to whomever will buy them, even if they don’t work, they’re abetted by our profoundly screwed up insurance system. In short, it creates some of the worst, most irrational incentives imaginable.

Think about the process behind a drug prescription from the viewpoint of each person involved. For many doctors, the cost of a drug is totally invisible: They don’t prescribe them with any concern for cost-effectiveness or even clinical efficacy–indeed, when I’ve asked a doctor how much something costs, I’ve often gotten a snippy reply, as if asking about money were some kind of moral insult. Instead, there’s merely the doctor’s own vague sense of what usually works. If they’re told about something that’s new and supposedly better, why wouldn’t they prescribe it? If it costs 10x more than a previous generation of drug, who cares? Likewise, patients with insurance don’t pay the costs of medications, so they’re only too happy to take one more drug, under the assumption that it can’t hurt.

The insurance companies, meanwhile, are in a tricky, low-margin business. Try as they might to wring bargains from pharmaceutical companies, they can also earn more profits simply by increasing their reimbursements–which they in turn pass along to consumers as premium increases. The point being, no single actor in this farce is trying to do bad. But none of them has any real incentive to say, “Hey, does the patient really need this? And is it worth the money?”

But there is also a deeper problem within ourselves that drives all of this behavior: Magical thinking. We’re only too happy to believe that we can go to the doctor and simply get a pill that’ll fix us up. Indeed, I imagine that if you went to the doctor about some ailment and were told to eat more vegetables, get more sleep and exercise, and take a few Tylenol, you’d think that doc was a fool. You’d never go back.

Doctors know that. They know what’s expected of them. They know that telling someone, “Hey, your problem will probably go away on its own in three weeks,” is a good recipe for going out of business. The question is, will our belief in a little magic pill ever go away, even when the pills lose their magic?

Source: Co. Design

There’s something sexy about a guy who likes to take charge and tell everyone who’s boss. Christian Bale, aka Batman, is probably better known for his temper than his talent but we’re not judging. Christian has that psycho sexy thing going on.  At the end of the day he looks pretty damn good with his shirt off, and…well…that’s what really matters.

Come on out to Georgie’s Alibi on Wednesday February 15th for the Wolf Cuff 2nd Anniversary & Fundraising Event: A Benefit for Grateful Paws.

The main event is open to the public from 8-10pm with hostess Nikki Adam.  Gay Fort Lauderdale’s very own Dame Edna will perform at 9pm.  The night will also feature a silent auction, 50/50 raffle, special pricing on Wolf Cuff Leather Crafts and all of the night’s proceeds will go to Grateful Paws Rescue.

For ticket prices and additional event information visit Georgie’s Alibi or email sdr@wolfcuff.com

Alright guys, seriously, if you haven’t registered for The Cabanas Guesthouse & Spa’s Register to Win there’s something wrong with you!  It’s totally free and you could win a FREE 3 night stay at The Cabanas and a gift certificate to the spa.

No lies!  Trust!  The most recent winner is Jeff O’Hern of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  So, the moral of the story is if you haven’t submitted your email yet, click here and submit it.

Ohh la la, some latin flavor this week for ya’ll.  Cristiano Ronaldo is an overseas soccer player for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is captain of the Portuguese national team.  He may be better known for the time he spent with Madonna or Kim Kardashian, but that’s a whole different story!

Fab2Go is South Florida’s premier luxury transportation company based in beautiful Wilton Manors. Their services include transportation to and from the airport (FLL, MIA, PBI), Port Everglades or private charter for any occasion.

If you and your boys are hitting the town for a night out, consider Fab2Go. Remember, drinking and driving is bad!  Fab2Go is unique, fresh and far from ordinary.  Whether you’re going to a group dinner, concert, business event or just need to get to your Florida gay resort, be sure to call on Fab2Go.  Really though, who wouldn’t want to ride around in a brand new, best in class, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter?

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