Thursday, January 6, 2011
Cognitive Dissonance
Everyone is quite excited about the guest appearance tomorrow night at the Condors hockey game.
It's billed as the first ever visit by one of the top competitors of our times, an unchallenged champion known all 'round the world.
Kobayashi!
World Champion... Eater.
WTF?
There's really such a thing? Oy vey.
One of the local stations even has a contest for free tickets and the prizes include a special individual consultation with the champ himself.
Trust me, if there's one thing the locals don't need it's tips on competitive eating.
That was all weird enough, but then they segued into a segment about how to lose all those holiday pounds, featuring something called the "Caveman Diet".
Oh Lord, where to start.
It was all about eating meat and vegetables raw.
But... but... just yesterday they had a story, picked up from the network, about new findings that showed Neanderthals cooked their meat.
Do these people not even watch what they put on the air? Or do they just not care?
I read somewhere that dogs only have about a ten minute memory loop. You can leave them for 15 minutes or 10 hours and they don't know the difference. I guess that applies to the locals too.
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