I recently joined a couple online health communities in my widespread (no pun intended) effort to get back in shape. Wellsphere, Fitday, Low Carb Newsline. Generally speaking, they're just a bunch of blogs and forums with varying degrees of intelligence amongst the commenters. And what's a good health blog without good commenters, right? I joined a paleo diet health forum, a south beach diet forum, and several others.

For the most part, these little communities have been helpful, but there's an ironic stench lingering around the borders of many of these pages, wretched advertising.

I've got no beef with advertising. It's what keeps America running. What gets my goat is the type of advertising profligating on these websites. I see advertisements for "The Breakthrough Chinese Diet Pill seen on CNN and FOX news!" bordering an intelligent article about organic eating. There's a glutton of "Get thin Quick" schemes fattening up the healthiest of websites. This is an sickening mixed message. Learn about eating natural, low carb foods, meats and vegetables. But, don't forget to click through the diarhetic/legal speed/caffeine pill link so you can pay a fortune for a fad diet that doesn't fucking work.

I suppose I should be happy with the good health I'm getting from the articles. But, honestly, these websites should have a little responsibility to keep the filth away.

I'm angry about being angry. I know it's ironic, and I know it's the same thing as being sick and tired of being sick and tired, but I just can't stand being angry any longer. It's damn hard to tirade day in and day out and think of good reasons to dislike the world, occasionally I just want to stop and say, "Hey! This isn't so bad! I can live with this!" But no, what would this blog be without senseless anger, so I cave in on myself and get my little angry men inside my brain all worked up over the fact that they are worked up. I recently took an anger management class, not as part of any requirement for a traffic violation or run in with the cops, I just took the course because I felt I was venting too much of my anger, and after all the venting I found the pressure point was still maxed out. The course helped a bit, until I actually became angry about taking the anger management course and quit. Ah well, next month I may take a break, then it's back to raving about post mortems, or opera, or the state of the government, or a background check on immigrants, or the welfare of Ireland, or orthorexia nervosa.