Of course, with my eyes, that wouldn’t work. I need tri-focals, corrections for astigmastism, and prism corrections.

And I don’t trust the MDs who do optical corrections. I prefer optometrists. (Of course, for my other optical problems, I do go to an MD.)

But if all you need are opticals for near sightentest or for sightnentists, that may work. But if your vision is as lousy as mine has been for 50 years, something more is required.

By “optical corrections” I take it you mean lasik and that kind of stuff? I’ve never had the guts to try such a thing — it’s my vision, and you can’t get that back (yet)!

I felt kind of vindicated hearing the news last night that the FDA is going to look into that surgery a bit more closely. It’s about time.

Sorry. I mean corrections by eye-glasses. I doubt if my eyesight could be corrected by contact lenses, much less by laser surgery.

And I agree that is about time someone looked into this sort of surgery. I think that it is useful for simple problems. But if you need tri-focals, astigmatic correction, and prism correction, it probably won’t work.

My ex-wife needs glasses for presbyopteria (and, if she knew it meant “old eyes”, she would be furious. She might be helped by laser surgery, but you eyes keep getting older.)

True. Those things are more complicated than, say, a standard test to determine if someone’s ready for reading lenses they can buy at Wal-Mart.

And, yeah, from what you’ve told me about your ex-wife… she’d not only be pissed but would expect the gub’ment to pay for her lenses.

Well, she is now living in the UK, so the government there will pay for it. Fortunately, her coven has not yet invented a trans-atlantic broom.

And if you want a reason to oppose the Democrats, just look at health care in the UK or in Canada. Health care there is rationed by long lines.