The American Derriere

Ooohh, la, la!
Here's an interesting take on why we Americans are fat, from Mark Morford writing in the San Francisco Chronicle. Hopefully, with all the embarassment Condi is causing Americans over here in Europe, my French friends will not be exposed to this article. (Ingres, a local boy, painted this rather large French derriere!)

"It's just one of those wicked telling signs, one of those sad little
cultural punches that make you cringe and sigh even as you stifle a laugh
and roll your eyes at the state of it all, as you read the one about how an
increasing percentage of people -- mostly women but half of the men, too --
aren't receiving their proper dosage of medicine when given a shot in the
rear by a nurse at the hospital because, well, their butts are just too damn big.

Which is to say, the needles are now too damn short. Too short to reach
what remains of the gluteus in most increasingly obese butt-exploded people in
America, and hence hospitals are now having to use longer and longer needles to
penetrate all the fatty acreage in the average American rear and deliver the
meds these people so desperately need to, you know, help lower their cholesterol
and treat their diabetes and try to prevent the imminent heart disease
that's coming upon them like a steam engine due to all the, uh, obesity."