salmonella - it's gonna get ya

please don't miss the boat on freaking out about the big salmonella outbreak. it's this year's scary, unstoppable disease. bird flu, lyme disease, etc.? all passé. last season's fashions. i mean, they're still out there, and they could still GET YOU, so be sure to maintain at least a residual, background level fear about them, too. sure they faded from the news, but nobody ever found a cure, did they?

but more urgently, it's salmonella that you should worry about right now. and talk about; don't forget to spread the fear. we put a lot of effort into promoting these scary diseases, so it's the least you can do to help out. if nothing else, please at least feel powerless.

because you are, lol.

how perfect is this picture from a washingtonpost.com story on the epidemic, btw? a bright picture of fresh produce in some local village market -- that would otherwise practically be a damm postcard -- is transformed into something only slightly less repugnant and terrifying than eating live roaches. and the wizened, disembodied hand? a brown hand, for full effect in the post's caucasian-majority media market, note. and what's that airborne tomato doing? is it being tossed in; discarded in disgust? but that blur looks like it's going up, doesn't it? does the brown hand belong to some aboriginal witch-doctor? double-scary!

i'm not sure who doctored this shot, i think it was werner. the man's a master. always pushing the envelope; piling it on like this. i never think the media will run the stuff he comes up with, but they always do. like they have a choice, lol.