Me and Jerry Lewis

The Shores have started the Holiday decorations but it looks like this year they are only doing every other lamp post. How chintzy.

Every once in a while I check my stats. Mostly when I am bored and no one else posted on their blog yet.

I noticed a week or so ago big changes in my stats. An odd older post being read by tons of people and different countries were showing up in the audience. Not a random country as I know a couple of people who travel a lot but strange countries and a huge shift in readers. Suddenly people in the U.S. were not reading my blog so much, and Russia turned her back on my too. But somehow I had attracted a huge following in France. Now more people in France read my blog than all other countries combined.

Do you think it is because my dog is half French Poodle? Or that someone discovered my intense love of Foie Gras and French Fries? I might have to get a French manicure even if they are tired and dated. I do have the fleur de lis trivet I bought in China. Vive la France.

And they make some mighty fine wine.

Soda and Foie Gras

This post is not about good and bad, right or wrong, or even smart v/s stupid. It is about Karma, what comes around goes around. Yea for Karma. When the powers that be, or as most people call themselves, the good, right, smart people decided to make my smoking life miserable, well it pissed me off. Because smoking is legal (and a huge contributor to the tax bucket) I figured if it was so bad, make it illegal. Nope, "they" just harassed me for doing something legal.

Now however, the smartest people on earth have decided what size soda people can buy and what food they can consume. I always knew y'all were next. You see I don't drink soda, in Michigan we call it pop, because it is the worst thing in the world for you to drink. Vernor's ginger ale will settle your stomach and normal people need that, what, once a year. And ginger tea will do the same job. As for foie gras no one in California will be inconvenienced by this law because if you can afford it and know what it is you can get it shipped and have it cooked.

What did amaze me is that there is no restriction on "diet soda", which is so much worse with the chemicals used for the sweet taste and the high sodium content. So I guess the general health of soda drinkers is not the top priority with this crowd. And I have never seen a skinny person order a diet soda.

The best news of the day was that Disney is changing their advertising directed at children, there will be no junk food allowed. My question, just who is the arbiter of junk food. I personally think that Tyson chicken, all ground meat that is mass-packaged, all processed food, Wonder Bread and any chain restaurant fare is junk food. And don't forget ball park franks, the preservatives ya know. Juice boxes-junk food-all sugar and no fiber. Fruit roll-ups junk, anything not fresh-junk.

So I think no one wants me to choose what is junk and what is good food. Let the games begin.