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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.
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Thursday, August 29, 2002 Posted 4:44 PM
  Speaking of pinheads, what is with these major league baseball players? Somebody tell me if I'm out of line, but aren't we talking about illiterate, otherwise unskilled and unschooled young men who are about to refuse to play because the millions of dollars per year that each of them gets for running around, throwing and catching a ball and hitting it with a stick doesn't seem to be enough? Don't these guys spend most of their time sitting down or standing around? Or, from October to March, on vacation? So, who is supposed to feel sorry for them? People bringing home $8.50 an hour, working 60 hours a week to gross 30 grand in their best year? Fundamentally, I understand the ballplayers' argument: its that the owners are reaping huge profits that should be paid to the workers. Fundamentally, the ballplayers seem to just not get it at all: This is America, it's called capitalism, and ballplayers are very lucky people. I mean, if you don't like making millions of dollars a year, playing for an owner who is reaping huge profits from your labor in the ball field, I've got a couple of ideas for you: You could take a job in an American factory, for thousands of dollars a year, working for an owner who reaps huge profits from your labor, or you could go home, and make a hundred dollars a year, working for an owner who is reaping huge profits from your labor in the sugar field or the coffee plantation? To paraphrase the great Chico Esquela, "Baze bawl bean berry berry gude to zhew!" Sorry if its harsh. Go ahead, tell me what part I got wrong. © 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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