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Fast food is really really bad for you. Wow. If you eat fast food a lot, I suggest you don't read those nutrition fact things and actually
read how much fat is in a Whopper with mayo and a large fry.
This page is interesting. Turns out the biggest movie flop of all time
is Town & Country by losing a little over $100 million dollars. And I have a feeling Donnie Darko will easily make it's money back
now that it's on DVD and has great word-of-mouth working for it. I know quite a few people who own it, but only one of them
saw it in theatres.
And now for some ranting, no particular reason, just reading various things in the paper that I want to comment on.
First up is a New York Times article on
schools "giving up" on students. Giving up in quotes because it was the students who gave up on school in the first place. To
quote from the article "School officials had already called her and her mother in to discuss her frequent absences, her suspension for fighting, her pregnancy."
And then she's mad that she got kicked out? She deserved it! Let the people who WANT to learn stay in school, it's girls like
her that made high school miserable for everyone who went there to actually learn. Treat it like college, that's one of the
number of reasons why it works so well. If you goof off and skip classes, you will fail and you will be kicked out. Simple. And
while something like that would be a little too strict for high school, I really don't think this girl has any right to complain.
Also on the editorial page of the Tampa Tribune the other day, some smoking advocate was writing in that 73% of the
voters voted for the Clean Air Act last November that bans smoking in almost every establishment. But because not all eligable voters vote, that
works out to only about 37% of the population, so he was saying it wasn't a majority and hence unfair. Well if people would VOTE
then they could have something to complain about. But if you sit on your butt all day that Tuesday, you have no right to complain.
Apparently all these hidden smokers who love breathing horrible air were too busy buying another pack of cigerettes instead of
voting against it.
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