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If you want to eat twinkies, washed down with Mountain Dew, while snorting Pixie Sticks you had better think twice if you work at the Bay County Florida Health Department.
There’s a new sheriff in town, and he is drawing a bead on junk food.
Bay County Health Department Director Jason Newsome believes his office should be the gold standard of health, which to him means healthy eating and living habits. So to that end, he is “encouraging” his employees to reconsider further enlarging their waist bans with doughnuts and the like.
And by encouraging, I actually mean force-feeding his employees shovel loads of health food slogans. Meetings are led off with words about nutrition, and even the health department’s electronic sign on the street flashes slogans such as “Donuts = Thunder Thighs” and “Fried Chicken = Double Chin.” Here’s a cute little video of all these phrases.
But even that’s not enough, since taking over in 2006, the health department director, has done the following:
- Outlawed junk food from staff meetings;
- Tossed sticky buns out of the office vending machines, replacing “unhealthy” snacks with “healthy” snacks;
- thrown away treats employees bring to share in the office lounge;
And then, last week’s topper. “When an employee brought doughnuts for a mandatory training session, Newsom stepped in to enforce his edict. The employee, whom Newsom would not identify, got a written ‘counseling’ for disobeying a directive from the boss.” Read more »
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From the daily specials at lower east side bar Spitzer’s Corner.
Too good not to share (from Eater):
Photo from Eater
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While I will not focus on the direct implications of the Spitzer Scandal, let’s call it HookerGate, I do like the peripheral reporting and news that it generates.
First, the NY Times has excellent coverage about everything you might want to ever know about ‘Kristen,’ a.k.a. Ashley Alexandra Dupre, yes, including her real name and her MySpace page. Let’s welcome the nations new Monica Lewinsky with open arms (never mind, that will cost extra). I have to ask though, was the MySpace page really necessary? Kind of seems like more of something that would go around the net and be posted on a bunch of blogs, did the NY Times really need to link to it? (of course I am just feeding into the frenzy). Can we also note the six fake Facebook pages created int he last 24 hours or so (all using pictures from her MySpace page) and that no one bothered to make a fake Friendster page for her (though talk about an impressive LinkedIn Network).
Next up we have a set of photos from NPR from Monday called Standing by Their Men. The images show images of politicians at their low points (Teddy Kennedy leaving court after pleading guilty, Nixon resigning, Marion Barry admitting his involvement in smoking crack, etc.) with their wives standing by the them during their moment of disgrace. An interesting set of pictures especially since most of the scandalized men are answering allegations that they were cheating on their wife. My favorite by far are the McGreevey’s who just look like they are having a blast. And, of course, guess who the last picture is of… Eliot and Silda standing side by side and looking none too pleased that she has to put on her game face to deal with this whole mess.
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With every media outlet around happy to have something other to report on then the election I figure why should I be left out.
I am going to elect not to focus so much on the scandal, but rather a NY Times article calling into question his bodyguards. Did he sneak away from them? Were they guarding the door to his room? Did he get a booty call for them as well.
The article asks if they were not fully doing their job or if they were aware that this was going on (siting Clinton’s affairs in Arkansas as the precedent for that).
My guess is that they were fully aware of it all but felt it was a better idea for their futures to not say anything and let Spitzer do his thing. An interesting alternate perspective on the scandal. Though there does seem to be some question as to what the job of the security guard is- Titled ‘Despite Constant Security, Politicians Still Find Trouble‘ does this mean the security detail is there to protect a politician or to prevent him from getting into trouble. I would guess there are other people who have the job of help politicians keep their pants on. I think being willing to take a bullet is enough for these guys.
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