Some random acts of stupidity that have recently occurred in our lovely city:
• Fast-food giveaways at the gym. LA Fitness allowed a fast-food place to give out free eats to gym-goers at the Park Place Mall location last week.
And by “eats,” I mean hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches.
Look … I work in a fairly high-stress, low-physical-activity job (unless you count taking calls from deranged conspiracy theorists to be physical activity), and I am trying hard to eat well and exercise more. (Aren’t we all?) The LAST thing I need is my gym—which I pay good money to go to (or not go to, depending on the week)—dispensing free hot dogs.
Really stupid move, LA Fitness. Really stupid.
However, this was not the biggest moron maneuver in Tucson over the last week; that distinction goes to …
• TucsonCitizen.com‘s editorial in the April 19 Arizona Daily Star, which encouraged voters to reject Proposition 100 in an effort to “force the Legislature to solve the state budget deficit properly.” Anyone who has been paying attention to the state Legislature knows that it’s run by a bunch of anti-tax, anti-government zealots who would love nothing more to cut, cut, cut in favor of more privatization and more tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Voting against Prop 100 would just send these “conservatives” a message that it’s A-OK to destroy Arizona’s education and health-care systems (for starters).
This editorial is either pure ignorance or pure stupidity. Take your pick.
If you want to read an intelligent take on Proposition 100 (the proposed one-cent-per-dollar sales-tax hike), see our feature story.
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
Stupid from a health point of view, but probably lucrative from a business point of view, as I imagine LA Fitness was paid to allow this. Also, keeping the clientele a bit on the obese side is good for the gym’s future business.
hi five jimmy.
I know I lay awake nights worrying about this “issue.” We’re broke, we’ve got huge fiscal, social, and legal problems. We’re hit every day with new rules, prohibitions, taxes, burdened with one idiot gov’t decision after another, 24/7! And we’re worried about turtles?
Cut to the chase, DC! Just give us a list of things we:
can/can’t eat
can/can’t drink
can/can’t do
can/can’t think
can/can’t say
can/can’t believe
can/can’t buy
can/can’t want
can/can’t achieve
can/can’t dream
will/won’t be allowed
will/won’t have to pay for
will/won’t be forced to buy
will/won’t be banned from doing, saying, thinking, or believing
You’re determined to run every minute aspect of our lives anyway so just put it in a stupid memo and shut up already.
You’re gittin on my last nerve!
There’s plenty of waste in the State. I think we could all agree on what some of that is. Those who oppose the sales tax are asking that the State DO something about the waste; this is not unreasonable. Unfortunately, it is totally entrenched, and would probably be the LAST to be cut, if the State were forced to do that; is this less unreasonable?
ADOT threatened to cut ALL highway maintenance if suffering a 15% budget cut. Since this is their primary (only?) job, we can legitimately ask, what are they doing with the OTHER 85%? Are they going to quit buying the materials for repairs, while keeping everyone on the payroll, doing nothing?
The point is, there are two sides of the coin – it isn’t such an obvious answer.
Hmm Texas,I can always lend you the list of the can’s and cant’s the poor,senior,children, minorities,people of color,religions other than christianity,gays,transsexuals,etc.etc.have…sucks doesn’t it.I guess what comes around ,goes around.