A Health News Two-fer

January 3, 2013

To the surprise of no one except The Committee That Disapproves of Everything, that madcap group of scientists whose avowed purpose is to suck all the fun out of life for the rest of us:

Being slightly overweight is not as bad for our health as we were told it was.

Now millions of Americans, who weren’t going to lose the weight anyway, will automatically be able to reduce their blood pressure by not worrying about or being nagged about their weight.

A Good New Year's Goal

January 1, 2013

I was looking up information on author Christopher Morley and found this quotation by him on Wickipedia:

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

 

Sounds perfect to me.

Happy New Year, Everybody.

Another Christmas Reflection

December 23, 2012

I think one of the reasons that Christmas is so popular (besides the gifts) is that we all go gaga over the birth of a sweet little baby boy.

I think it’s funny that not one single hymn or Advent sermon ever mentions the fact that this sweet little baby grows up to be so annoying that one day people try to throw him over a cliff.

A Christmas Reflection

December 23, 2012

So my shopping is all done, including stocking stuffers, which I think were invented specifically to drive me insane. 

I was fine with putting some candy in the stockings, but somehow the concept devolved into finding something that has to be small enough to put in a stocking and yet not totally be a waste of money. 

Christmas is for masochists.

(P.S. I eventually solved the problem by just putting a paperback book, which we always give each other anyway, either in or on the stocking, depending on the size. Whether it fits or not, it’s a stocking stuffer.)