by the way, obesity!

I sure hope I don't end up with a bunch of dead links, but I was reading this article about the Governors struggle with the economy, and I saw obesity rearing it's fat, scary head in what I thought would be totally unrelated to the issue.

I saw this one paragraph and had one resounding thought. Here is the paragraph:
[As the meeting opened, first lady Michelle Obama sought governors' help in her campaign to tackle childhood obesity, though she acknowledged, "I know that many of you are stretched thinner than ever in these times and don't actually have money to spare."]

My response is, simply, the balance can be funny! Really though, the economy is not funny, not right now, not at all. I guess there was just no other way (if this quote was accurate) to put it.

Anyway, I don't want to argue public policy because I have been doing so much research in other areas that I would rather explore the more positive flights of fancy so to speak. I know I will get really into some pretty serious and not so pleasant issues, but I want to let this whole "obesity initiative" settle down for a while before laying down any kind of serious comment. I just thought it was interesting that as I take time out to read some boring economic news, I see that obesity is getting so seriously hyped right now. I like this quote and it's a bit harsh for this particular circumstance, but it's a nice way of saying some other choice thoughts about public policy related to sizism.

"Obesity is the last frontier of acceptable hate." - me!

I joke about the balance, but I must have been moved by something to start blogging, and sometimes I have an uncanny intuition about some things as I'm totally blind-sided by others. This obesity obsession has been nothing more than a subtle amusement to me until I started reading about the "what's being done" aspect. That's when I know all hell's about to break loose.

I guess obesity is a good smoke screen because of all these pesky issues that nobody has been able to fix so far. I'm not a business major, but I would think that a better strategy would be to work out the problems that you at least think there is a chance of actually fixing. I guess there is little chance of that, but I will say that going after another cause that has no determinative resolution is a wild goose chase to put it mildly. When I see things like that, I start to really wonder about the intentions and motives of going after so many other unresolvable things. Hmmm.

Any-who, I saw this and the irony of an obesity initiative that could be in jeopardy because of "thin" budgets made the yin-yang symbol spin it's ass off in my head, and laughter to come out of my mouth-hole. Yeah, I really want to come across as "obesity man" the super villain who wrings his hands and laughs in fits with every failure of primitive man to banish his very existence! When I google obesity man all I got was a bunch of articles related to weight loss and research on the dangers of obesity on men. The last entry on the page was this omg! Yep, within days I had to go there, had to bring man boobs into the obesiverse!

Oh, don't get me started! It really "grinds my gears" when a show like biggest loser will show man boobs galore, but won't have one single overhanging female belly in sight, ever! I mean, kudos on the sports bra and the sliver of belly between the bra and the top of the pants, but the guys let it all hang out and I can't catch a "navel-slip" from a female on that show to save my life! It doesn't help that I can't watch it for more than five minutes before the mere prediction of another crying fatty scene has me switching up to a news channel for some laughs. Ok, fat in the news was probably not the place for me to rant about man boobs on tv and the hypocrisy of the way that big round female belly is actually not going to be on your TV. I suspect it's actually considered so distasteful it borders on the obscene. Oh I hate even using that word!