Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in this thing called nostalgia. Electric word nostalgia, that means years ago, and that’s a mighty long time. But I’m here to tell you, there’s something else--the afterword…
Category: human culture
fat is contagious–keep your distance from me
I've read the "fat is contagious" study, and all I can say is that this is junk science. The gap between the journalistic quality of the New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News has narrowed significantly, and not because Weekly World News's journalistic integrity has improved.
my skinny on fat
I believe that the War on Obesity will ultimately be no more effective than the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, and the War on Terrorism, because, as is true in the previous examples, the war instigators know little about what it is they are fighting.
dirty details about Lisa Nowak’s private life–leave the poor lady alone, idiots!
It’s not hard to imagine why the prosecutors would release such sordid details, but why have news outlets taken to these details like a dog rolling in something fetid?
media coverage of Lisa Nowak is childish
But what’s with the diaper—that is, the media’s obsession with the diaper that Nowak reportedly wore during the 900-mile drive from Texas to Florida? Why does the public need to know about the diaper? How relevant and important is it in the whole scheme of things compared to the actual charge of attempted murder? Why did police choose to share that information and why did reporters choose to relay that to the public?
a Walgreens toy frog that might scare Miss Piggy
So my co-worker has this frog that says "Ribbit," and then emits this cartoonish, hysterical, and yes, somewhat maniacal laughter that can be heard across the room. I think it just lasts thirty seconds, but it seems a lot longer because it just keeps on going and going and going. Upon hearing this laughter, my first reaction was, "Okay, what kind of mind would conjure up the notion of a frog laughing so hard that it would sound like a screeching monkey?" My second reaction was, "Bartender, I'll have what the amphibian is having."
sinners, every single overweight one of us! (burp!)
So it’s not enough that obese people are the subject of jokes, ridicule, and assumptions about one’s competence and ability that really have nothing to do with weight. We are now considered “sinners” as well. Now I’ve heard everything.
christmas decorations and “deck the stalls”
These decorations are a nice contrast to a different sort of Christmas decoration I used to see when I lived in Chicago. After heavy snowfalls, Chicagoans have had this tradition of decorating the streets with orange cones, folding chairs, broomsticks, and other implements of obstruction designed to keep others from taking the on-street parking space they just shoveled.