A friend emailed me a couple of days ago to give me a hard time about one of the Amazon reviews of Protein Power. Other than when a new book first comes out I don’t really spend much time reading the reviews. There are over 400 reviews of Protein Power, and I doubt that I’ve read 50 of them. When I found the one my buddy was talking about, I had to laugh. Here it is:

The Power Protein Plan is an excellent program. The book details every aspect, including cholesterol, triglycerides, heart disease, diabetes…and explains how this protein plan can actually positively affect each.

My husband is diabetic and is on insulin and oral drugs to maintain his out of control blood sugar. I put him on the protein power plan and his blood sugar dropped enough that he could do away with 3 shots and the oral drug. He never felt better, but his self-destructive nature has caused him to forego sticking to the plan entirely-which is why I give it 4 stars instead of 5: If you cheat on this plan, you will gain weight and probably cause your blood levels to rise.

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Without doubt one of the best pranks I’ve ever seen.  I guess if you’re going to go to the time and effort to pull a prank, you might as well make it an epic one.  It seems as if I’m always the last one to find stuff like this, so if you’ve already seen it, my apologies.  But if you haven’t, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  I’ve been in Grand Central Station in New York a zillion times, and I can just imagine this scenario.

Hat tip to Channa for sending it my way

Sometimes just when everything seems to be going great, the unexpected can jump up and lay us low. In the case of this journalist, fate, in the guise of the Canadian Brown Finch, intervenes in a memorable way.

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for one of your misguided friends or relatives, here it is. I’m sure they’re available in all sizes.

I found these shirts in a comment to an old post in a blog I happened to come across while searching for something else. It amazes me that people can be so violent when it comes to the carbohydrate issue. It’s as if their spouses or children are being attacked.

This blog post was written back in 2004 when everyone had oh so briefly jumped on the low-carb bandwagon. They guy who wrote it was obviously worried that carbs were going to disappear from the shelves and he wanted to do his part to keep them there. You might think this was written tongue in cheek, but if you go to the post linked above, you’ll see that it isn’t. Read more »