I think too much.

Yesterday, I finally realized why America has an "Obesity Epidemic." It is because of those drive-in burger places. Think about it. Before the 50's, you never saw any really fat people or for that matter fat kids. There are a few notable exceptions, sure, but from all the footage I've seen, there were not that many fat people around. The logical, at least for me, here is that when people started to make the drive-in burger places, people started to get fat. Think about it. You don't have to leave your car while you eat a fattening burger. Before then, people would have to park their cars, walk into the restaurant, walk to their seat, eat, walk to the till to pay, walk back to their car, and then drive off to wherever. You had some exercise before and after you ate such a fattening food item! Now, thanks to the drive-in burger places and its baby the drive thru, people don't get that benefit. You can eat while staying in one place at all time. This is why I like having my room and TV upstairs and the fridge downstairs now. Yes, it is an inconvenience, but at least I have some exercise to burn off the bad food I ate.

I found out today during break that a bunch of people were looking at pictures of naked children in a book for English Comp. II. The objective was to figure out if the pictures were pornographic or not. The book itself has this history about how these religious groups would protest against it claiming it was child porn only to end up buying the book so they could burn it. Who lost here? The publisher or the protesters? If you guessed the protesters, you're wrong. They had to buy the book, so that means they had to cash out some of their hard earned paychecks in order to burn them. The publisher got the cash, and all the protesters got was what they wanted to begin with. Attention. So what constitutes what is porn and what is art? I think that in order to be pornographic in any way, you need to have that in mind as your intent from the start. You must intend something to be pornographic in order for it to be pornographic. You have to say to yourself that you are going to make this piece of work as sexual, as erotic, as "wood-stiffening" as possible. Pictures of nude children in a non-sexual environment is nothing new to the art world. I mean, just look at Cupid! Here's a nude little boy shooting arrows at people to make them fall in love! Nude children in art is nothing new, and above all else should not be damned as child pornography if someone took pictures of nude children simply to capture their innocence and beauty. Yes, there is gray area there. I'm fully aware of that. But I think it is fairly obvious when something is pornographic and when something is nude art.