Mmmm, Carbs…

I've been growing increasingly sick of Atkins pandering by the spate of restaurants touting their Atkins friendly menus. "It's a pound of red meat smothered in Bleu Cheese. And there's no carbs!" "Try our new potato-less french fries! It's just delicious low-carb fat, fried to perfection!"

It was actually reassuring to see KFC promote it's new low-fat wrap. Or at it would have been had the two actors in the commercial not been such bitter, bitchy little twits.

It's funny, though, that at the time of his death Dr. Atkins was obese.

Of course, even if his heart and weight problems really weren't caused by a strict diet of meat and cheese, it doesn't really make a difference to the hapless goons who think the Atkins Diet means they just shouldn't fill up on bread before eating their ten-cheese bacon-wrapped rib platter.

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On a completly unrelated topic-I just got one of those Nigerian scam e-mails that actually references 9-11. Sure these guys are greedy, semi-literate, potentially violent con artists but have they no shame?

Anyone see the ads for Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital? Apparently, it's "a story so personal only (King) could tell it." Yes, only King and Lars von Trier. Sure, throw in one scene of a jogger getting hit by a van, then make the name inexplicably clunky and suddenly it becomes "Stephen King's." Maybe people wouldn't get that it's about a hospital if he didn't put the word in the title. Sort of like how a lot of titles need that extra clarification: "CSI:Crime Scene Investigation", UC: Under Cover", "CMY:Celebrity Mole Yucatan," or "The Sixth Sense Because the Boy Can See Dead People Plus Twist Ending." Although, technically, since the boy only saw dead people, there were still only five senses.

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Since the Democratic primaries have pushed poor George W. a little out of the spotlight (and it's funny to hear local* newscasters talk seriously about Democrats), I thought I'd help the guy out by posting links to some articles about the our country's first mentallly handicapped president:

On his genius plan for cutting the deficit in half: from the Philadelphia Inquirer

On his fiscally responsible domestic discretionary spending: from Slate

On his clearly spotless military service record (after all, he got paid, didn't he?): also from Slate. Of particular note is the Timeline entry for Christmas 1972: "While visiting his parents in Washington, D.C., Bush goes out drinking with his 15-year-old brother Marvin. On the way home, George W. hits a garbage can with the car. George W. confronts an angry George H.W. by saying: "I hear you're looking for me. You wanna go mano a mano right here?"
SOURCE: U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 1, 1999 "

*local meaning Richmond, VA