Gluttony Is Literally a Deadly Sin

Stop! Just stop with all of the "I can eat more than you can" contests. They are utterly pointless and disgusting. Corporate sponsorship of these events is morally reprehensible and spectatorship is depraved. There is no skill or talent involved in these contests -- just plain gluttony and often stupidity. Case in point -- the guy who died because he had five cupcakes lodged in his throat and he couldn't breathe. Good grief! What a horrible way to go and it was completely preventable (remember all of those "chew and swallow" directives when you were a kid?).

Today is one of those news days that's filled with strange deaths. Aside from cupcake guy, another man was killed by a shark and the woman who couldn't get oxygen on a flight.