If you are fat but not happy and need some fat acceptance assistance go to the Big Fat Blog, where you can find out information vital to fat people who want to be both fat and happy. For instance:

Why accept yourself fat? Why not just lose weight and then accept yourself?

That type of sentiment promotes the idea that fat people can’t do things in life until they’re thin. Fat people can (and should!) get out and enjoy life - just like anyone else. Both psychological and sociological barriers sometimes affect that in a negative fashion, though. You should love your body, no matter what it looks like. It can take a very long time, but it’s a good thing.

Anyhow, there was this one time, at fat camp. . .I can’t wait to get my Bowflex.

I’m not sure what to write about Hunter S Thompson killing himself because he really didn’t have an impact on my life. I haven’t read anything he wrote and have only heard of him through others, who mostly thought he was a great man.

I don’t know why he decided to turn himself off, but it does bring up a point of note for me: suicide is a reasonable way out of a reality worse than death. I don’t believe that God will damn a soul for the act of suicide. The real sin is when people try to force someone to stay alive against his or her will.

Some lives are worthless from the beginning and some become degraded, miserable things as time erodes the good from them. Other lives are a miasma of pain and suffering and some lives turn unbearably boring. The people who live these lives own them and it is their right to choose when the candle should be snuffed. If we have free will, and it is a gift given by God as many in this society believe, then the right to die at the time and place of your own choosing is sacrosanct in my mind.

Hunter S. Thompson has moved onward to somewhere or nowhere and that was his right. Anyone who says otherwise can kiss my ass.

Update: I was watching CNN from my hotel room this morning and they were reading the letters from viewers. Some “Christian” wrote in and said that the only person who should have the power to end a life is God and I thought to myself - what about free will? The sheer arrogance of others in enforcing their own particular brand of “God’s will” leaves me enraged.

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I tried to order $750 worth of stuff from ZipZoomFly on Friday. While I’ve had good experiences ordering from them in the past, this time was different. Their order processor, bank or whatever (they blamed it on Well Fargo when I called), denied my order even though I was using a debit card with plenty o’ cash to back up the transaction.

The next day, although the order was rejected, a $750 hold was placed on my acccount. WTF? Either take my money and ship me the stuff I ordered, or don’t take my money. What is not cool is that ZipZoomFly (or its order processor) decided to just freeze almost a thousand dollars of my cash for a week. Who built a system where that was an OK thing to do? The people responsible need a bitch slap. Or am I being ignorant thinking there has to be a better way of conducting business?

ZipZoomFly gets a Worst of Show entry for screwing up my order and holding my cash hostage.

Update - My money has been released and is back in my back account where it belongs. This after a call to ZipZoomFly where I was on hold several times but finally got a person to take my information and promise to submit it to accounting so they could call my bank and tell them what had happened.

Blogpulse has been intriguing me lately. While I write here mostly for my own enjoyment, it’s nice to know that other people are reading what I have to say.

I am not sure what criteria are being used by the technology that drives the Blogpulse site, but it was very interesting to note that I somehow became the top result on January 21st of the year for writing about a dead girl named Megan Leann Holden. You may recall that Megan was murdered and dumped on the side of the road. The suspect, a former Marine (as I am), was also mentioned in my blog post.

I’m still trying to figure out why my using the full name of the victim, Megan Leann Holden made me the top result at Blogpulse and drew a great deal of extra traffic to my site, while my repeated use of Eason Jordan’s name in the blog drew almost no extra traffic.

I’m not sure how my use of the names differed, but I’d love to hear from savvy bloggers on the topic.