A few years ago, I wrote a column addressing what I thought was the nadir of women’s self-esteem in the early twenty-first century. The practice in question was “hand-plumping,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like: A procedure that injects fat into hands. It delivers a more youthful-looking appearance, hiding veins and other telltale signs of hands that have grasped, carried, held, worked and, well, lived. (more)
Smile! Your dimple's showing. And if it's not, a trendy cosmetic surgery procedure can put a perfectly cute dent in your cheek that will show up with every grin. (more)
“Billions of more documents” will be have to be filled out by small businesses for the IRS so that a “spendthrift Congress can shake a few extra bucks out of” them to pay for ObamaCare. They will have to spend countless hours to “gather information,” such as about the person they buy a used car from, and the mom-and-pop landlords who lease space to them, even if the small business has to spend more money gathering the information than the IRS will collect in taxes as a result. (The new health care law will raise far more revenue by taking away medical-tax deductions of “15 million very sick people” with “major medical expenses” starting in 2013.) (more)
Beauty salons are popping up on the scarred streets of Iraq’s capital and as the violence recedes, more people are looking for cosmetic surgery to give them a lift. (more)
We all know that the U.S. health care system is broken and most of us know that Obamacare is only adding additional bureaucracy and entitlements (read expenses) to an already unaffordable system. (more)
The new tax on investors in the health care bill has been increased from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, but only a few media outlets like Bloomberg and Business Week are reporting it, since if the public knew about it, they might be more opposed to ObamaCare. (more)
I was born too late. Okay, maybe that’s an overstatement. Let’s just say I was born too late to get in on the whole “mommy makeover” thing. (more)
