CSotD: The Days of Wine Neurosis
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Steve Kelley nails one with a sweet connection between the economy and another silly piece of non-contextual media frenzy over a study that likely proves nothing.
I find this one particularly funny because my 401k used to be a year's salary. It wasn't much, but it was something. Then the crash hit. Now my 401k is still a year's salary, but only based on what I'm making now, as a freelancer, not on what I was making then, as an editor. And the same people who tanked the economy now want to fix it by cutting Social Security.
My dad didn't quite make it to 68. Yesterday, my mother turned 86. In a perfect world, I would want to take after Mom, but I don't think I'd be able to afford it.
What made Kelley's cartoon particularly humorous is that my only health risk is my weight, and so, at the risk of adding a video for a second day in a row, I've had this Allan Sherman song running through my head ever since that silly news about drinking and longevity began to make the rounds.
A bit of context: There really was a best-selling book in the 1960s called "The Drinking Man's Diet." In looking for that link, I discovered that not only is the book still around, but the author is, too, at 93 years of age.
Good thing for him that his book sold as well as it did!
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