March 30, 2009
Does this skirt make me look fat?

Posted at 7:22 pm, in: Health Care
Tags: S-CHIP

I firmly believe that if you have to ask someone’s opinion, you probably already know the answer, but you just don’t like it.

For example, when a woman asks, “Does this skirt make me look fat?” The answer is probably yes, which she knows deep down inside, but she isn’t willing to admit it. Knowing that no one is going to tell her that it does make her look fat, even if it does, she gets the false reassurance she desired so that she can wear the skirt without a second thought. By the way, it’s not the skirt that makes you look fat; it’s the fat that makes you look fat.

Today on cnn.com they are doing an iReport about the smoking tax increase, from 39 cents to $1.01. As they report, this is the “single largest federal tobacco tax increase.” This will be used to fund the ridiculous (my word, not theirs) expansion of the S-CHIP, the child health care bill that provides “free” health care for “poor”–and, now middle-class–children.

They invite you to put yourself on a video and tell them what you think. What one thinks about this is irrelevant. Yes, it is unfair. CNN already knows the answer, now they are just looking for their viewers/readers to give them the guy-on-the-street aspect to convinve the public that the majority of Americans support this.

I would submit a video of my own. Somehow, though, I think it would end up on the editing room floor. One can’t be sure, but I have more important things to do with my time.

Now, where did I put that pack of ciggys? As, I’ve said before, light up, it just may save a child’s life!