Waiting Room: Magazines in my allergist’s waiting room: Smart Business Northern Ohio Live T&L Golf T&L Tennis Black Enterprise American Cheerleader Field and Stream Highlights for children I found this to be a very wide selection of reading material for people with very specific interests. And out of curiosity, why does Highlights include the “for children” tag? Is there a Highlights for adults? If so, I would like a subscription, please. Anyhow, I think it should be pretty obvious that I opted to read the new issue of American Cheerleader. I’m not a cheerleader of course, but by God, I am an American. That’s for damn sure. These colors do not run. I made my magazine selection, not for the cheerleader on the cover, (which some hooligan had defaced with a black pen to give the illusion that the attractive athlete was sporting facial hair and bull horns), but because I knew there was much I could learn about the world of cheering. I discovered that there certainly are brains involved in the sport, as the magazine offered clever tips for recruiting guys. “I bet you wouldn’t even be able to do it,” was one such line, demonstrating that the barrier between cheerleaders and the brilliant mastery of reverse psychology has finally been broken down. Finally, I read my “Pre-Season Forecast”, or for those of you not familiar with AC lingo, my “horoscope”. After addressing me, an Aries, as “sugar”, it said, “Being a workout buddy to someone older (grandma, perhaps) pays off and smoothes over rough spots with the ‘rents. The good news: that boy you’ve been eyeing not only fancies you back, but offers lots of laughs.” I think that the real good news here is that the publishers of American Cheerleader are not afraid to use challenging language like “perhaps” and “rents”. (It means parents.)