Saturday, August 20, 2011

Told You!

The only good thing about this Health.com article about the "most depressing states" is that Oklahoma's presence on it incurs some snark on the pretentious Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips, pointing out that even our state's Official Rock Song -- the Lips' 2002 "Do You Realize??" is depressing.

The first slide in the show points out that the whole premise of the article is false when it says that low ranks in different important health or other categories do not necessarily mean that people who live in a particular state find it depressing to do so, which means it's really just an excuse to make tepid jokes about the states featured in the slideshow. Even so, I'll give it a pass because of the Lips crack. I told you we should have listened to the 99.3 percent of the state that either voted for a different song or didn't care enough about it to vote at all.

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