In moderation
Boxes packed today: 2.5 (would have been more but ran out of packing tape)
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While in the garage packing today, I was listening as usual to NPR. Alex Chadwick's show ran a report on the fact that apparently, scientists have found, sunshine may actually prevent cancer. It seems that our bodies rely on the vitamin D they produce from exposure to sunlight to fight a whole host of cancers, including, bizarrely, skin cancer. So seriously is this new study being taken, that the powers that be are apparently reviewing their guidance on staying out of the sun. The eventual advice, as with anything government feels the need to poke its nose into and decree upon, like eating carrots and burned toast or hunting bears, is likely to be "in moderation is OK".
But as a reporter on Chadwick's show alluded to, America is not about moderation. Immigrants to this country do not come with dreams of living moderately. (Britain, or Holland, are probably better places for doing that.) America is all about Monster ThickBurgers and Hummers; it is a land where the average wedding has ten groomsmen and ten bridesmaids and even trailer homes have multi-door refrigerators and 470 cable channels. What's the point of Las Vegas Lite?
Which is why the feds could have save a lot of tax payers' money not bothering to redesign their food pyramid or reconsider their advice on sun bathing.
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While in the garage packing today, I was listening as usual to NPR. Alex Chadwick's show ran a report on the fact that apparently, scientists have found, sunshine may actually prevent cancer. It seems that our bodies rely on the vitamin D they produce from exposure to sunlight to fight a whole host of cancers, including, bizarrely, skin cancer. So seriously is this new study being taken, that the powers that be are apparently reviewing their guidance on staying out of the sun. The eventual advice, as with anything government feels the need to poke its nose into and decree upon, like eating carrots and burned toast or hunting bears, is likely to be "in moderation is OK".
But as a reporter on Chadwick's show alluded to, America is not about moderation. Immigrants to this country do not come with dreams of living moderately. (Britain, or Holland, are probably better places for doing that.) America is all about Monster ThickBurgers and Hummers; it is a land where the average wedding has ten groomsmen and ten bridesmaids and even trailer homes have multi-door refrigerators and 470 cable channels. What's the point of Las Vegas Lite?
Which is why the feds could have save a lot of tax payers' money not bothering to redesign their food pyramid or reconsider their advice on sun bathing.
posted by alranson | 3:08 PM
6 Comments:
Listen, Dizz, I was a fan (even if some comrades loathed your gossipy tone) but lately you've gone just plain boring. It's got to stop.
Is this a call for more gossip, or less? BML, I can't tell.
We all know you're more mean-spirited than you're letting on--so let it out already. For those of us not at the tip of your poisoned pen, it is most amusing.
I think there must be some confusion here: poison pen letters are anonymous, like yours: not public, like mine.
Listen Anon..
If you don't like what you are reading, simple solution is not to bother.. I am sure we will miss your insightful remarks. um. Not.
This is getting much better!
Pointless semantic arguments designed to subtly highlight your intellectual "superiority," lame snarky comments from one of your three supportive (no doubt internationally so) friends...
Perhaps I should have said poisoned tongue, not pen. I merely meant that you haven't had anything deliciously petty to say since I/we listened to your juicy bon mots at Foxfield. Your expressions when you "learn" something are priceless! Really.
And Dizz, you are hardly public.
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