Lawyers have filed suit against McDonald’s trying to pin child obesity on the fast-food chain. Lawyer Samuel Hirsch calls children eating McDonald’s “a very insipid, toxic kind of thing.”

Here’s an idea: Americans could take responsibility for the children in their homes, and stop trying to blame someone else for their own families’ decrepit eating habits.

Then again, why bother? It’s easier to point fingers at someone else. And those fries taste so good. And it’s only 39 cents to SuperSize that soda….

Update, Nov. 25: The kids are suing McDonald’s, not the families. To which I say: You know fries are fattening, Tubby, and so do your parents and guardians. Give it a rest.

At Bice, an upscale Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan, the kind of place where men in suits can order $90 truffle pasta platters to impress other men in suits during their business lunches, in the men’s room, above the urinal:

WE AIM TO PLEASE
YOUR AIM WILL HELP

And apparently it’s hip now, too. How fucked up is your social life when you have to smoke crack to be “cool?”

I’m considering auto-deleting emails from certain country codes as a simple way to avoid spam.

No offense to the nations mentioned, but more than half the junk mail I receive is from Brazil and Denmark thanks to lax security by foreign sysadmins. I don’t know anyone in either country; why not filter them out? Seems far more straightforward than installing some half-brained spam software that may junk my real correspondence.

Which begs another question: do the spammers really think I’m going to “llame, por favor!” when the x-sender is .dk?