Fat, Lazy & Stoopid

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Empty Calories

“We are the world’s fattest nation because we consume the largest amount of empty calories. We may also be the world’s stupidest nation, because we consume the largest amount of empty information. We need to forget about our online clout and grow up. Be silent. Think, analyze, question. It’s painful, isn’t it? It’s humbling. It’s humiliating. It’s unpleasant to realize that yo’re not so clever, after all—that actually, you’ve been taken for a ride.”

—Anne Keene, blogger, “Shedding History,” Jan. 12, 2009

(Thanks to alert WORDster Phil Meyer)

Editor’s Note: Tweets. Betcha can’t eat just one!
Today’s wish-I-were-here photo: Hockomock Head Lighthouse, Swans Island, Maine
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