Bill Clinton, Vegan... Who Knew!

For the past three years, since his emergency heart surgery, Bill Clinton has eaten a vegan diet, the strictest kind of vegetarian diet, excluding eggs and dairy products. As to "who knew," evidently not the beef industry, or else perhaps Bill is not as famous as Oprah Winfrey, because as far as I know, they haven't threatened to sue Bill for his non-carnivorous habits.

In the summer of approximately 1981 (?), about a month before my 33^rd birthday, I turned lacto-ovo-vegetarian. My choices were to go veggie or to eat out for three continuous weeks: the house in which I lived for the duration of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute had a lot of sprout-eaters in it, and we decided as a community that all of us would go veggie for those three weeks. It was easy, and I liked it so well that I brought the habit home with me.

Today I turn 65 years old. Yes, I'm still lacto-ovo-veggie. No, I don't miss meat at all, though I do eat things like veggie bacon, veggie burgers, etc. But given the typical short lifespan of my mother's side of the family, I believe I've already lengthened my life by switching over.

If you are interested for health reasons, be aware that vegetarianism is like horseshoes... close counts. Cut your meat-eating to a couple of times a week, and you probably will lengthen your life and improve your day-to-day health.

Bill's looking mighty good these days!

(Meanwhile, GeeDubya Bush had a stent put in... my best wishes to him for his continued good health, even if he is a sorry a$$h*le...)

Tea Party Rep: Trusting Obama On Border Security Is LIke Trusting Your Daughter With Bill Clinton

Despite eight years of George W. Bush and four full years of Obama, GOPers continue to play the Bill Clinton card.

I am amazed that there are still American voters who even remember Bill's sexual escapades, let alone think they have any bearing on Obama's border policy decisions... but apparently there are GOPers out there for whom time stopped in 1996 and nothing important has happened in the world since Monica gave Bill a BJ.

Um, people... since then, we've had a major terrorist assault, a Republican president, an almost-Republican president and more shit hitting more fans than you can count, notably an economic crisis that may eventually affect your paycheck if it hasn't already. If giving a president an illicit BJ will return the economy to the condition it was in during Bill Clinton's terms, I'm all in favor of it. Somebody help the man with his zipper, please...

(BTW, the Republican rep's name, "Huelskamp," is... (said in hushed tones) Dutch. You know how sexually promiscuous the Dutch are. Pass the word.)