30,000 Calories and Still Eating
Posted by MichaelGroff on December 27, 2010 | Filed under Podcasts
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Israel’s foreign minister says that a peace deal with the Palestinians is “impossible under current conditions”. All of this coming on the heels of more Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel and Israeli retaliatory strikes along the Gaza border.
The 2010 holiday season was somewhat more lucrative for retailers than initial forecasts had projected and certainly more prosperous than last season. The news comes despite nearly 600,000 additional job losses in 2010 and an unemployment rate hovering near ten percent throughout the year.
The START treaty with Russia continues to be a major point of contention in congress, though I’m left wondering why? Even if both sides actually follow through with the terms of the agreement, each nation would still have a sufficient nuclear arsenal to destroy the world 60 times over… though some senate Republicans would prefer we be able to destroy the earth 85 times over. Although it appears the treaty will be ratified, the fact that such controversy even exists considering the relatively minor impact such an agreement would have is truly puzzling.
The University of Connecticut women’s basketball team set the NCAA record for most consecutive victories. Surpassing the 1971-1974 UCLA Men’s program which achieved 88 straight victories. Geno Auriemma, coah of the UConn women says that his program isn’t getting nearly the recognition nor attention that they deserve. I suppose he’s ignoring the fact that ESPN 2 devoted five hours of pregame coverage to the Huskies 89th straight victory and ESPN classic running a 24-hour marathon featuring “The Run” leading up to this game. Only one sporting event in the world ever receives more hype–the Superbowl. The primary difference between the two is that about a billion people worldwide watch the NFL’s most prized event, while the interest level for a regular season womens college basketball game is about on par with that of a comedy club in Juarez featuring Pauly Shore. Warm beer and cold soup are far more palatable than watching one team that represents the entirety of the talent pool in a sport dominating a fundamentally deficient squad from universities we didn’t even know existed.
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Everyone hates spam, but someone finally decided to do something about it. Daniel Balsam decided to quit his job, go to law school and is now suing every company that sends him spam email. I, more affectionately, refer to him as my hero. It’s a much more practical use of the court system than suing because you spill coffee on yourself.
Donna Simpson, like many goal oriented people, has a dream… she wants to become the fattest woman in the world. Weighing in at 644 pounds she has a bit of an uphill climb still to make, but she did get 30,000 calories closer to her goal after devouring a Christmas feast that could feed an entire village for a year. I become winded after reading the list of what she ate. A sweet bonus to the story guys is that she’s single and has two children–with two different fathers. Double bonus; her second child got her into the record books as she was the fattest woman to give birth. Of course for the unprecedented triple bonus, she makes her living off of being fat. Evidently people from all over the world watch her online as she literally eats her way to 1,000 pounds. Naturally I immediately think of a Simpsons episode, one in which Homer deliberately gains more than 60 pounds so he can get on disability. Rule of thumb: If Homer Simpson does it, you probably shouldn’t.
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