Brown Motion

We knew about normal.  And abnormal.  Normally.  But a new contender to the normal has emerged in the past few years.  Ergo the New Normal. What is it?  It is not abnormal.  What you ask? Trumpeting egos. Global Warming.  Or the human ability to figure out that the globe is warming. Quick buck replaced by Unicorns. Drug epidemic. And not just the narcotic kind. Factory grown food. Obesity. Instant attention replaces old fashioned vanity. Digital friends. 24x7x365. Talking assistants powered by a cloud based superpower. Stress.  Lots of it.  As a result of all of the above. Finally, artificial intelligence since clearly the natural kind is dwindling.

We in the United States have many dilemmas. Some are around gas (as in gasoline for most part) and some around tax (the one that the government can levy) but off late we have seen a deadly combination of both in the form of gas tax. They come in two varieties. One is imposed on the gas that is used to pump your car and the other is on the gas that you use to pump yourself. While we (in most states) pump our own gas it is not that activity that is drawing scrutiny. Rather the tax on soda or carbonated beverages that is item du jour. Hence the tax on gas. It is therefore obvious to believe that we have two forms of gas tanks and both are being taxed. One for being too obese and the other for polluting the other gas that we like to breathe. Breathable gas is free and not taxable by law partly because they have not figured out how to do it. Some folks with more money than they can count use it to buy oxygen bottles so they can claim they spent on something most of us did not - b...

Its time to cook up a new metric to track the world's obesity in city and villages, in countries and continents. Hence the proposal to calculate the GIRTH of a nation. Birth as you recollect is passe. Other than Sudan or Syria further breaking up south of the equator I think we are all done with new nations being born - for now - hence focusing on Girth. I know Putin is still fuming after losing half the real estate he called his. Getting back to the lard at hand - responsible for the girth that is - we can safely say that the average girth rankings would list Samoa at the top followed by the United States. I mean have you seen an average Samoan? Nothing wrong I say - their food pyramid looks more like a cylinder and that is just as well. At least they eat local - being an island and all - assumption not based on any factual data. Now the skinniest would have to be the Congo. Or some neighbor of theirs given the rate of malnutrition therein. Every other Euro zone fella w...