In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
I got on the scale last night and found that I have lost 5 pounds over the past week. Which is good. Like most rotund penguins, I carry more fat around than is really good for me.
However, the diet which achieved those results -- a diet of grief, anger, sorrow, and mourning over the fate of a city (New Orleans) that I loved and the people therein, combined with heartbreak and difficulty sleeping -- is not a diet which I recommend.
- Badtux the Grieving Penguin
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WARNING: You are entitled to create your own arguments, but you are NOT entitled to create your own facts. If you spew scientific denialism, or insist that the sky is purple, or otherwise insist that your made-up universe of pink unicorns and cotton candy trees is "real", well -- expect the banhammer.
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I've been putting on weight. All I've been doing is sitting in front of this damn computer, reading these heart-breaking stories, not getting the exercise I normally would, and occasionally drinking. Like I need the weight. Or the alcohol.
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Medicate with chocolate. M&Ms are wonderful candy-coated pills. Mix with Penguinmints, and I can stay up 24/7 overwhelmed in my chocolate haze.
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