The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I just saw the following post on Facebook and felt prompted to write about it: "The Assault Fork Responsible for Thousands of People Dying Every Year of Obesity And Heart Disease (picture of a fork) Ban It Before More Lives Are Lost" This post is obviously trying to be clever by comparing forks and their alleged link to obesity and heart disease (leading to death) to guns and their link to gun violence (leading to death). These comparisons are getting more and more ridiculous. So we're now comparing a fork, which provides us food, and leads to obesity and heart disease (and death) to a gun, which provides us bullets, and leads to death. First off, a lot of the fattier foods which lead to obesity and heart disease are typically eaten with our hands. I don't know too many people whom eat Big Macs or Whoppers with forks, who eat french fries, onion rings, potato chips, ribs, pizza, or buffalo wings with forks. How about drinking soda pop? The last time I ...