This is done partly as a public service, since the hashtag thing is one of the more inane fads known to man and history has shown us that if Joel is getting on board with a fad it’s a sure sign that that fad has already passed by. I wasn’t exactly Mr. Fashionable even when a TV remote was a meaningful part of my life. So the “regular feature” will almost certainly consist of this single post, after which I’ll get bored and embarrassed. But I digress.
Today’s Reason I’m Glad I’m A Hermit involves, as so many of them do, Michelle Obama.
Mrs. Obama is again using hashtags, this time to promote her drink water campaign, and is encouraging individuals to post photos of themselves drinking water on social media. The campaign, which is based on faulty science, is a joint initiative with Mrs. Obama’s anti-obesity group Let’s Move and a Partnership for a Healthy America (PHA).
I have opined on activist ‘first ladies’ before, but I must confess that since then Michelle has become a regular source of entertainment. As Michelle Initiatives go, this one is at least relatively benign. And also, as a small amount of research link-clicking conclusively proves, utterly, expensively, idiotic.
Really? Water made Einstein smart and Audrey Hepburn glamorous? I did not know that.
Michelle Obama is very near the top of my list of people I wish would go away and take her stupid poodles with her. Having said that, drinking more water is almost never a bad idea. Having suffered a bout of severe dehydration last year, speaking of idiocy, I have imposed upon myself the iron rule that I shall empty at least one of these into myself daily:
…but I don’t need a government bureaucracy to enforce the rule. I’ve got my bouts of dizziness and weakness, culminated by a really memorable kidney stone, to remind me.
And anyway, as at any time when she involves herself in my affairs, it’s more annoying when Michelle does it.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a pee.
ETA: And now, a public service message from Mrs. Obama:
Joel, remember when we were agreeing that a disturbing proportion of gender whatever people we’d met tended to be attention seeking and emotionally high maintenance?
take a look at this on vimeo http://vimeo.com/88910386 (gargle has taken the youtube version down).
if true, it could explain quite a lot.
My friend who went to Thailand as Geoffery and came home as Julie, reckoned that a big adam’s apple was always a give away…
Well that photo is a keeper. You’ve got enough actual shit to put up with anyway.