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Man, I wish I'd written this
Mar. 23rd, 2007 11:42 amBut I didn't, so I have to credit Anna Gosline over at Inkling Magazine. Damn.
Your Health this (Bananas) Week
Think you have a sinus infection? Well stop demanding antibiotics, you idiot. Up to 83% of people with sinus troubles in the U.S. get prescribed antibiotics even though the root cause may well be something nonbacterial. Like hormones. Or allergies. Or a virus. So go take a sauna or stick your head in the toilet or something, lest your head be eventually overtaken by a mutant form of brain-eating MRSA.
After years of aggressive marketing campaigns by government organizations like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Americans still aren’t eating enough fruit and vegetables. Maybe they should use the PR money to hand out fruit and salad for free on street corners. People like free stuff. And why not hire some murderous Columbian terrorists to do the job? I mean, they already love bananas and recently found themselves out of work in the fruit business.
(Rest of the article is here...)
Your Health this (Bananas) Week
Think you have a sinus infection? Well stop demanding antibiotics, you idiot. Up to 83% of people with sinus troubles in the U.S. get prescribed antibiotics even though the root cause may well be something nonbacterial. Like hormones. Or allergies. Or a virus. So go take a sauna or stick your head in the toilet or something, lest your head be eventually overtaken by a mutant form of brain-eating MRSA.
After years of aggressive marketing campaigns by government organizations like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Americans still aren’t eating enough fruit and vegetables. Maybe they should use the PR money to hand out fruit and salad for free on street corners. People like free stuff. And why not hire some murderous Columbian terrorists to do the job? I mean, they already love bananas and recently found themselves out of work in the fruit business.
(Rest of the article is here...)
