We’ve got a world of obvious stupidity and blunders today. First up, a new study reveals that… a if kids think their ability is innate, they won’t try as hard. As Jack Handey says, “When you ask a kid a question, and they get the right answer, I think you should tell them it was a lucky guess. That way, they get a good, lucky feeling.”
From the industry that brought you the crispy snacks with an incredibly boring toy surprise inside, the unsurprising news that sugar and corn syrup manufacturers think sugar is not bad for you. Of course they do. Now to see if the WHO can stand up to them and state the obvious fact that the sugar industry ought not to meddle in the affairs of international health organizations.
My comment on sugar is always that price of sugar in the US is artificially high, partly because of the longstanding foolishness that is the Cuba embargo, but mostly due to market-distorting corn subsidies. Once we implement some free trade in this country, we’ll move from high-fructose corn syrup back to sugar. Some argue that corn syrup is worse for you, but it’s a dubious, small, and off-topic distinction.
To round out a newsday of blaring inevitabilities, Our Leader is up to his old strategery, quietly ignoring or crushing the will of the vast majority of US citizens: putting toxins in our water, and of course making sure those hop-head cancer victims keep on suffering.
What kind of person wants to stop a cancer victim from easing nausea and cramps, or even god forbid getting a little high? Ashcroft, of course, who has a sort of puritanical zeal I haven’t seen since I went to see a high school production of The Crucible. He really does fit the cookie-cutter definition of puritan: “terrified by the idea that someone, somewhere, is having fun.” Besides, illness is punishment from Gawd! You know what causes cancer and AIDS, right? SIN! I can’t wait for the old fuck to get bowel cancer. I can’t wait to hear that the chemotherapy made him vomit until he ruptured his diaphragm and tore his esophagus, that he died from massive internal bleeding and suffocation as the necrotic growth from his bedsores spread, suppurating, across his atrophied pudenda.
That was kind of mean. On the other hand, it consists of statements of opinion and/or true fact, so although it violates the rules of taste and prudence, it is not actually libel.
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