Why is my inbox suddenly inundated with “helpful news and links for nutrition bloggers”? Do I look like a nutrition blogger? Did anyone else even know there WAS such a thing as a nutrition blogger? I mean, I’ll admit we’re a little nutrition-happy in real life. We eat whole foods, we’re vegetarian, the kids have a veritable panoply of food allergies between them which render us unable to serve processed foods, etc, etc. But I think the only food item I EVER mention around here is… ice cream. Which I happen to be eating at this very minute.

And that is all the nutritional information I plan to provide in this here blog post.

Also: Slate? Salon? What’s with the sudden onslaught of popup ads? Are you trying to kill me by causing my eyeballs to explode? ARE YOU? Because I will be worth way less advertising dollars to you if I am dead. Just something to think about. Everyone who wants Netflix already subscribes. Yes, they do. A subscription to the Washington Post is not an impulse buy. Credit card popups make slightly more sense, but are infinitely more annoying as they insist on blinking and flashing. Just make them ALL GO AWAY before I have to click away to preserve my own sanity. Please.