Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
Some grocery stores are now selling a meatless meat product called seitan. It’s made from wheat, and is supposed to be better than tofu in all ways. Some call it “wheat meat” — that would be a much better name than seitan. FYI, seitan is pronounced like satan. That’s definitely not an association they want to make! Surely they could’ve come up with a better name for it…
I’ve said for a while that I think professional politicians ought to have a sense of humor. So many of them seem completely humorless. It would make politics a lot more interesting if they could take a joke or loosen up once in a while. It’s just not healthy to be serious 100% of the time.
That said, I just found a video where Karl Rove and his “homies” decided to bust a move at The Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. I’m not sure this was a good idea…
I will give them a few points for trying to be funny. At least they’re trying. But then I’ll take away all those points and then some for how lame this is. I mean, there’s bad, and there’s so-bad-it’s-funny, and there’s this-is-so-horrible-that-I-feel-dumber-for-watching-it. This falls into the latter category.
BTW, I doubt this gives him more “street cred”…
In the news there’s a story of a woman who is about 1000 pounds and can’t leave her house. That is FAT! I know, it’s not politically correct to talk about a woman’s weight nor to call her fat, but this isn’t some extra 50 pounds — it’s an extra 850 pounds! I don’t think it’s even debatable whether she’s fat — let’s just call it what it is.
Anyway, she was in the news because she killed her nephew yet she’s not in jail because she’s too fat. Sorry, but that’s just not a good enough excuse. The prison should knock out a wall and make a double-wide jail cell if necessary. If she can’t walk (and she probably can’t), get a crane and a dump truck, and haul her butt to the slammer. Let her sit there, away from TV and excess food. For her punishment, they should make her exercise. If she can’t do much, they could have her roll over, or try to touch her hands together.
They can’t let her make a mockery of the justice system just because she’s fat! She must go to jail. What kind of example are they setting?
What is this world coming to?
The pitchers of the Chicago Cubs played a unique practical joke on their strength coach during spring training this year. They totally destroyed his car! They smashed the windows, punctured the roof, peeled up the trunk, and tied the doors closed. They left some baseball bats and balls around the car, so he figured it was some of the pitchers.
They let him fume for a while, and he couldn’t figure out how to tell his wife about it, because it was her car. But then the pitchers took him back to the parking lot and gave him the keys to a brand new Nissan Xterra SUV.
It seems wasteful to destroy a car like that, even if it needed to be replaced, because someone else might want it. But I imagine the look on his face was priceless… and I figure they had fun destroying his car…
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