Nation faces more important epidemics

Publication Date: 09/25/2006

I just happened to stumble across Brad Tesdall's "solution" to the obesity epidemic. I just have one question for Mr. Tesdall ... what are you, retarded? Do you really think fat people haven't already heard a lifetime of criticism from pompous pricks like you? As much as the obesity epidemic has taken over this nation, I've always been more concerned about the asshole epidemic that has gone unreported for too long. But nobody publicly insults assholes because, quite frankly, they're a bunch of assholes and its easier to ignore them. Or what about the dumbass pandemic? Our nation's collective IQ has been dropping sharply for the past ten years because of our country's thirst for knowledge isn't as big as our thirst for mind-numbing sports, TV shows and video games. The fact that our nation is getting fatter has less to do with a lack of shame and more to do with the food industry's rampant success in selling us fattening treats. But we live in a capitalistic society, where financial success is the rewarded far above healthy, responsible business practices. So, however you want to address the obesity problem, quit your bitching Brad. Maybe the reason you're only able to get a fat chick to sympathy screw you is because you have one or both of those social diseases that demands our more urgent attention.

Shannon Russell

St. Louis