the yip-yips do not cause childhood obesity

[rant on/]

Here’s a fun game for you:

First, put a kid in a school desk for seven hours a day, plus an hour or so sitting on a bus, and then throw in another couple of hours of sitting down to do homework. Do that for five days a week.

Next, design all public spaces so that it is inconvenient and/or unsafe to walk anywhere, and design residential spaces (think suburbia) so that it is boring to be outside.

Finally, have the vast majority of adults in a kid’s life model sedentary work during the day, and sedentary hobbies in the evening.

Okay–and here is where it gets fun–

now blame television and video games for childhood obesity!

Amazing.

And, if you really want to get tricky, you can also blame tv and video games for kids not reading–a sedentary activity! See the doublethink? Perceive you the mixed message?

Okay, once you’ve mastered this, you can move on to other wonderful applications. Try some of these:

Violence? Blame tv and video games.

Consumerist society? Blame tv and video games.

Break down of the nuclear family? Blame tv and video games.

The end of moral society? Say it with me now–blame tv and video games.

Really, it’s so convenient. TV and video games are the one-stop-shopping for all our cultural scapegoating needs!

[/rant off]

And now for a piece of what I truly believe is some of the best programming to ever hit the airwaves.

I dare anyone to watch that and not feel happier.

And would you look at that? I just embedded a video in my blog entry! Is there nothing my macbook and I can not achieve?