Friday's Rant: Cookie Monster

Well, it's been quite a week.  We have more bailout, bankrupt auto makers...and, dread of dreads, pig flu!!  Here at the Iowa Blog Cabin, we're hanging in there.  None of the editorial board has reported coming down with the pig flu.  We toss it up to the fine, steady hand of Chet Culver. 

But you wanna know what's bothering me right now?  Cookie Monster.  Yep, that big, blue, furry, muppet.  I'm not sure when it happened, but apparently, so I'm told, he doesn't devour massive amounts of cookies like he use to.  Cookies are a "sometimes snack."  Are you kidding me?  Forgive me if I'm behind the times, it's been a while since I've watched Sesame Street.

I thought about this when I read today that Chet "Butter Burger" Culver has signed the and the state is beginning to implement new rules for "junk food" in schools.   Apparently, no pop, only healthy snacks and none where sugar and fat make up more that 35 percent of the calories. 

Things sure have changed since I was a kid.  When I was a kid, we were thrilled on peanut butter sandwich day - and I'm not talking about Jiffy or Skip.  I'm talking Gub'ment peanut butter.  Straight out of the five gallon bucket.  And we were THANKFUL. 

I digress, we're turning into a country of wusses.  Cookie monster can't eat cookies.  We have to regulate the snacks in vending machines...Hey, I have an idea.  Exercise.  What happened to jogging and jumping jacks - and Pinball Wizard (the greatest game ever, by the way)?  Huh?  Kids have the metabolic rate of jackrabbits - they'll burn of those calories.  Seriously, folks. 

In honor of the one, true Cookie Monster:




Breathe in, breathe out...this week's rant is over.