A Couple of Quick Posts
Now, I don't want to get off on a major ranting tangent here but I did see something on my way to work that made me stop, pull out the Clie and take a few notes before pedaling on to work.

Imagine a scenario where you are walking with one of your friends having a nice conversation about how awful the Raiders are or that the Sharks made a terrible mistake in trading Owen Nolan away. When, suddenly, your friend stops walking, bends down, picks something up off the sidewalk and eats it.
Basically they've just taken trash from the street and ingested it.
Pretty nasty to think about, right?

Well replace that something with a half smoked cigarette and that's exactly what I witnessed this morning. A lady wearing pretty awful looking acid washed jeans was passing by the front door of a local bar (one where they have the bar completely enclosed by glass so you can drink and smoke legally at the bar (or they used to, I've not been in there in ages because its grotesque having to swim through a sea of smoke to order a beer). And this lady picked up a used cigarette and stuck it in her mouth and lit it!

And my resolve to never smoke got a whole lot stronger because that's just plain nasty to take someone else's trash and put it in your mouth.
Not to mention the fact that people smoking look utterly stupid but that's another post.

Two more bits of news to pass along and then its back to the press mill.

The Utter Fatting of America Gets Another Shove to Lard Heaven
The first came from Mark Morford and was linked in today's Morning Fix that was mostly about the fatting of America. He mentions a new, rather nasty sounding food product that'll just help us bust a gut even faster. He wrote about a trade group developing beef-based snack food called cheeseburger fries in which each nasty deep fried heart hating "meat and cheese compound" stick contains between 4 and 6 grams of fat each! But you know what? They will sell like mad because they are so fat filled and poisonous for human consumption. Which reminds me, I've got another bit of news from Jay that should be posted about the lethality that is margerine.
Morford is calling for America to get back on a health kick, put down the triple processed meat product stick you're chewing on, pick up some organic and totally unprocessed food and take back your vitality instead of allowing it to wallow like a glutted pig in a trough of preservatives, emulsifiers, trans-fatty acids and a whole galaxy of estrogen-esque chemicals that pass for food today.
P and I are making strides down that road to a healthier future by preparing more and more of our own food, sure its tiring but the food tastes better and isn't like ingesting the overprocessed poison that you get at the BK drive thru.

Pondering a Career Change
As if hearing about the exorbitant sums of money that idiots like Jessica Simpson make because she happens to be pretty and can sing but has maybe ten or fifteen lonely brain cells wondering where the party at? How about finding out what the Top Ten Most Overpaid Jobs in the USA are? How about a quick rundown here? Just to make that $9 an hour job seem like even less than it was like yesterday. Some of these people, with no training and no real skill, are pulling down $150k plus a year! For jobs that are nearly completely automated in some cases.
10) Wedding photographers
9) Pilots for major airlines
8) West Coast longshoremen
7) Airport skycaps
6) Real estate agents selling high-end homes
5) Motivational speakers and ex-politicians on the lecture circuit
4) Orthodontists
3) CEOs of poorly performing companies
2) Washed-up pro athletes in long-term contracts
And the number one most overpaid job in the United States?
1) Mutual-fund managers

Funny, I didn't see PR managers on that list.