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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested. |
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Feed The World: Did They Know It Was Ramadan Time? Band Aid, 20 years ago, was the greatest things that rock and roll brought the world since Elvis (Presley & Costello) and the Beatles. Bob Geldoff and Midge Ure were brilliant, wrote a great tune, raised tons of cash, andt ignited Bono to humanitarian action, and the world is a better place (hard to believe) than it would have been without them and their efforts. Now, as for the remake:Who the hell are those people? Well, I hope it makes some money for starving people. But by 2004, one would hope that Western Europe would realize that most of Africa is not Christian and could not care less whether or not it was Christmas! They are Muslims, and they observe Ramadan, which concluded on November 13th. Did the do-gooders know it was Ramadan-time at all? Without accepting or condoning his methods in the least: People, this is part of what Osama is beefing about... © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
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