Jeebus. As the man says, there are no words. Nor for this, either.
UPDATE: Damn, that's amazing. Pej's post was at 6:59 PM EDT Friday. Check out this quote:
Just watch: Soon the obesity police are going to get in on the act.So this morning, I come across a Don Surber post from just a few short minutes before that (assuming he is in the Eastern time zone):
Having done nothing with his 4th term as the junior senator from West Virginia, Democrat Jay Rockefeller is going to take on the No. 1 problem in America: Fat people on TV.I've been saying "words fail" a lot lately. Posted by Ken S at May 13, 2007 08:50 PM | TrackBack (0) |
Smoking, head-kicking, and cotton candy = EEEEVUL.
Gratuitious sex and nudity? MANDATORY. And if you disagree you're a Puritan fascist!
Posted by: Nightfly at May 14, 2007 08:41 AMBut what if you like naked, gratuitous sex with cotton candy and a smoke afterwards?
chsw (headkicking is just too kinky)
Posted by: chsw at May 14, 2007 07:37 PMEh, just make the kids watch "grown up" shows about "celebrities". Then all they'll see are dangerously thin people (Well, the women at least).
Even beyond the whole "Why do people have kids if they insist on letting the gubmint raise them?" question, even beyond the "WTF?" part of the whole thing, I have issues with this: as a borderline fat person, this kind of thing makes my head want to spin around and vomit pea soup. Seeing fat people on TV does NOT make kids go, "Oh, I guess it's okay to be fat. I'm gonna get fat." No. It's the fact that their parents won't let them run around outside. It's the fact that many parents don't bother to cook any more, but instead stuff the kids with McDonalds because they get tired of hearing the children whine when they prepare some other kind of food. Fat people - including me - are not making your kids fat. You are and they are. In my more end-of-the-world type moods, I begin to wonder when the "re-education camps" for people with BMIs over 21 or whatever the "magic number" is now will appear.
By the same logic, we should ban Patrick Star from SpongeBob because he makes it okay to be a brainless, spineless (literally) mouthbreather.
Posted by: ricki at May 15, 2007 05:24 AMFrom your lips to Xenu's ear, Ricki.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at May 15, 2007 06:01 AM