Michael Phelps: Buffet Nightmare

If Michael Phelps is ahead of you in line at the buffet, you're in trouble. The BBC details the swimmer's daily diet in this article, and it's crazy.

Here's a highlight:

Breakfast: Three fried egg sandwiches; cheese; tomatoes; lettuce; fried onions; mayonnaise; three chocolate-chip pancakes; five-egg omelette; three sugar-coated slices of French toast; bowl of grits; two cups of coffee.

Reading that gives me a stomach ache.

Damn, People Are Stupid

According to CNN, People magazine has paid $14 million for pictures of Angelina Jolie's spawn.

The sad thing about this arrangement is that it's probably a good investment for People. They know their audience better than I do, and I'm sure they know whether there are enough mouth-breathers out there who would buy their magazine just to gaze on celebrity brats to justify the fourteen-million dollar price tag.

Hopefully the story's correct on this point:

It is the second time People magazine has won the North American rights to the couple's exclusive baby pictures in exchange for a hefty donation to charity.

Maybe some needy people will benefit from this stupidity. Otherwise, People is just producing more noise, distracting the public just a little bit more, eroding whatever sense its readers had left with photos of wealthy, worthless larvae.

But hey--how dumb am I? If this isn't worthy of the attention it gets, why am I writing about it?

Because I'm stupid, too.