The Good The Bad And The Fattening.

I just read two letters to the Washington Post Editor. First there was the one, "Saving The Twinkie" followed by "Making Soda Drinkers Pay". The first bemoans the bankruptcy of the maker of Twinkies while the other feels it appropriate to place a tax on soft drinks. both made good solid points. Why should Goldman Sacks and the other Wall Street Banks get bailed out while the very nutritious Twinkie be allowed to go under? On the other hand if people want to drink that unhealthy brew, let em pay a tax that would help to cover the health care costs for drinking that stuff. Two food groups discussed, one swooned over, the other reviled. The first letter makes the unsubstantiated claim that Twinkies can still be fresh even after 100 years on the shelf, the other claims it's target causes obesity and other health issues. If we continue to have such diversity of opinion, we'll never come together as a nation. So here's a suggestion to get us moving down the road to healthy discourse. It's a way to bring us closer together and help to find solutions to our discord. One good, one bad, but together, they're just fairly good or fairly bad. If we ask the EPA and Food and Drug to combine the two into one big splurge of over-indulgement, we might find a Utopian universe where healthy is taxable and unhealthy is applaudable. I can see ads claiming that a coke and a twinkie go together like a heart attack and diabetes. Get your fix on route 66. A sweet shop next to every hospital. Yes folks, there's an answer to every problem under the sun.