So, there's a new report from Harvard Med that says, according to my local FOX TV station, that eating too much red meat, specifically beef, I guess, "increases your chance of death by 13%, and it's 20% if it's processed red meat like hot dogs."

And here I thought my chance of death was already 100%. Wow. 113% (or more) chance of death? Looks like trouble to me. HPH

 

And here I was thinking it was a less than 100% proposition.

 

Who gave this report, one of their weather people?

Partly necrotic in the morning with a light breeze followed by a seventy percent chance of sudden death in the evening.

The local station here (Orlando) kept reporting for an entire week about the dangers of the MRSA "virus". I sent them numerous emails and blew out two veins in my head before they issued a correction. Nimrods.

 

I saw that! Drink a sugared drink with it and it will be instant death!!!

 

I hope those veins weren't infected with MRSA. You could conceivably cause a pandemic. Not that a hospital stay would be any different - except you'd get the same ineffective antibotics that were overprescribed and caused the problem in the first place.

 

Ha, smart guy. Weather people would never give that kind of report, because we're too good at hedging our guesses...er, forecasts. HPH

 

I meant weather person as in the ever-smiling, vacuous ditzes one usually has to endure on the local the news, not legitimate and credentialed meteorologists.

 

No, I'm pretty sure the blown veins were the result of acute hypertension brought on by repetitive displays of ineptitude and rank stupidity. I hate WESH 2 "News".

 

They do work hard to perpetuate the old stereotype that "journalism school is 4 years of college to learn to write at the sixth-grade level," don't they?

 

Where, I want to know, were all of those ditzes, especially the ones of the female persuasion, when I was in graduate school?

I could have been a great tutor for them! With lines like "Hey, babe, how about we go up to my place and discuss the quasigeostrophic model of baroclinic instability and go over those occluded fronts of yours?", well, how could I lose? HPH