“Lunch is for wimps!” goes Gordon Gekko’s line from Wall Street.
A great movie, yes, but also an interesting premise: There’s no time for nourishment when there are sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
I rarely eat lunch during the workweek. Actually, I always skip breakfast Monday through Friday as well. And yet I gain weight. Go figure.
My reasons for skipping lunch are not as adversarial as Mr. Gekko’s. I just find that a can of Pepsi and a few chips can sustain me until dinnertime. However, I do take a mid-day break from the spreadsheets for ten or fifteen minutes to catch-up on the news. On Friday, I nearly spit out my soda as I read this headline in the New York Times:
Bin Laden Adds Climate Change to List of Grievances Against U.S.
Who would take advice on the environment (or on any subject for that matter) from this shadowy killer of innocents? Why is every inane comment that surfaces from this politically ill founded provocateur considered newsworthy?
I’d sooner take advice on managing my finances from Ned the Wino.
Does it stick in your craw that we managed to find Saddam Hussein in a hole in the middle of the desert just seven months after the fall of Baghdad, but we can’t seem to locate this preposterously immoral, imminently recognizable, media whore braggart after all of these years?
Even more absurd than the notion of Bin Laden morphing into a concerned global citizen was the reaction of a colleague to whom I had mentioned the headline. She, in effect, embraced Bin Laden’s thesis by indicating that his comments were just one more piece of EVIDENCE that the whole man-made climate change proposition is a hoax.
Help me Lord!
Where would some of us get our ideas without the FOX News talking points to guide our way?
I don’t know whether lunch is or is not for wimps, but I do know that drinking the Kool-Aid will not serve us well in defining the problem and finding workable solutions to safeguard the future for the benefit of all.
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