Factoidial, those seem to be the countries where the highest percentage of the population is obese. For comparison's sake, here are the countries where the highest percentage of the population is overweight (i.e., not as serious as "obese"), according to this article:

1. American Samoa
2. Kiribati
3. USA
4. Germany
5. Egypt
6. Bosnia-Herzegovina
7. New Zealand
8. Israel
9. Croatia
10. United Kingdom

Somehow this whole notion is ringing eugenics-bells in the back of my mind.

Gee Bill, sounds like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the prison-cot this morning...

I'm in Memphis, where we routinely get over 100 with extreme humidity.

Hope the New Yorkers are coping with the heat OK.

NEAT!

When I was getting a new landline phone number about ten years ago, the operator said, "How about 728-XXXX?" I looked at the phone, figured out what I couls spell with 728, and asked for 728-3465.

Alas, it was already taken. I would have been so thrilled to have RAT-FINK as my phone number.

Ha! My sister lives in Villa Rica. It's just as charming as you'd expect.

There's a drive-in here in Memphis. For some reason it's got these weird-but-cool things standing out in front of it.

I have no idea what you mean by this. How does one feel in control of a "normal" child? How is that changed by the child having an abnormality of some kind?

Those aren't rhetorical questions; I sincerely don't understand what you mean.

Mmm, sexy crying mice...

This is anecdotal, of course, but I blogged regularly for about five years, and once I joined facebook I pretty much quit. Not completely, but blogging just isn't how I spend my on-line time these days.

(Yes, leaving pointless coments on Neatorama also occupies a lot of my time.)

Gauldar, you "wouldn't know what to do"? What do you mean, like you might send it back?

Here is what you do: You love your child fully and unconditionally, and thereby teach them to love themself. It's not complicated.

Actually, this is different from what's called "hate speech" in the U.S. This is more akin to a tort called intentional infliction of emotional distress.

That's brilliant, Kalel. "Mister Jalopy's Kiddie Porn Emporium!"

Snopes weighs in: Link