I should know better than to get all worked up over a NYPost article, but this one hits me in the gut. Morgan Spurlock made a documentary where he decided to eat only McDonald’s food for 30 days. The quote that will be used by the tree-hugging dirt-nibbling hippies:

Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock’s entire body deteriorated.

reads more to me like a man eating foods that cause an allergic reaction. The host site for “Super Size Me” appears to be overwhelmed so I don’t have the details of his diet, yet, but this reeks of untruth. Sure, it’s a bad idea to eat exclusively McD’s for any long time but it’s not poisonous. The key is probably realted to:

Scores of cheeseburgers, hundreds of fries and dozens of chocolate shakes later…

If my lactose-intolerant digestive system tried to process that list of food I would be hospitalized after a couple days.

Couple of items –

First – I’ve been taking liberties with the banner under the title (as I’m sure y’all have noticed). Good/Bad/Indifferent?

Second – I wanted to spread a little love around the porch, as I’m sure the upcoming election will be extremely acrimonious, with the level of discorse hovering somewhere around Willie Horton/charges of racism exchanges from about April through November. Group hug.

Last – I’m a lucky man. Headed to Houston next week for a last little bit of roughhousing with only one kid. Headed to the hills this weekend for a little bit of XC(cross country) skiing.

What’s better than clubbing baby seals? Smacking penguins like baseballs. Check out this game where penguins dive in front of your club-wielding Yeti and you knock them out-of-the-park.

This may be the worst flash game ever. Why would you shoot paper wads into a wastebasket compensating for a near-by fan on your computer screen? Easy: because if you do it for real at your desk it looks like you’re not working.

Phases of the moon from the US Naval Observatory.

This is part two of my travel update of our Hawaii trip. If you’re lucky, it will be my last time bringing it up.

The Degree Confluence Project is an attempt to visit every place in the world where a line of Latitude meets a line of Longitude. Pretty cool, lots of neat pictures taken all over the world. Kind of a fun way to get to know what different areas look like.