Inception

( Cut for spoilers, and there WILL BE spoilers in this review/musing on INCEPTION, so if you're a SPOILER PHOBE, dude, suck it up and ond't read! )

Garbage floats on all the oceans

Plastic garbage layers the ocean's surface. Isn't this absolutely disgusting? Check out the article.

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Of course, let's frame a tragedy where 6 children drowned in a river in Louisiana on race instead of lack of swimming knowledge and parental ignorance.  I'm not sure where to "place the blame" on this one. Is it still that bad in LA where black families have no access to swimming lessons and public pools?  (I guess I wouldn't be entirely surprised)

And here's an ABC News clip featuring the tragedy and explaining how 3 times the number of black children drown than white children, and briefly goes into the possible reasons why. The teens who drowned should be considered heros, considering they went into that water trying to save their sibling/friend.

Yahoo is pissing me off, now Today

Why? In their health section, there are about 4 or 5 articles all referring to a "finding" about obesity--that self-reporting means people often underestimate how much they weigh. Why is it ticking me off? EVERY SINGLE PHOTO used by Yahoo features a torso of a fat or obesely overweight WOMAN. Where are the fat men? Where are the disgusting fat bellies? The overhanging male flab?