Racket (nebulous)

 These things are called "drafts" until they're ready for publication.

Mine are never ready for publication.

This one is nebulous, ethereal.

It's a feeling (OK?)

uh...m

OK Someone talking to me on the phone from their home, sneezing-someone very near the phone, You get that it's covid they're using as an excuse, or did someone just offer someone a job where there was none before?

"Eat Activia".

Yeah-ok but what about Greek-yogurt?

"Eat Activia"

Yeah ok, cleared that thorny issue right up.

It haunted me. The insidious bullshit *haunted* me, large companies preying on the weak and the small.

Remember Charcoal Micronite filters?

Remember When Big Tobacco Sold Asbestos as the “Greatest Health Protection”? – Mother Jones

An ordinary looking(I called them "weak/small" at first, in comparison to large-evil as in Company, but they could be a CEO, they love to write chatty newsletters)  person wanted me to click on a blog-link, instead of just quoting from it, like I so often do. 

Do you actually *read* the titles of links before you click on them?

Most are unreadable code.

OK the above, but this time, link-less.

An ordinary looking( at first, I called them "weak/small" in comparison to large-evil as in Company, but they could be a CEO, they love to write chatty newsletters)  person wanted me to click on a blog-link, instead of just quoting from it, like I so often do. 

But is it a paid advertisement for the new york times and a professional's article?
(Did I tell you I ran out of cigarettes?)

So I clicked on it and was treated to a very big blocking ad (if my popups and ad-blockers work, how are you successfully able to block articles? Maybe it's little secret things you wish to insinuate, that are blocked, and questions about where my house is. But MY blog craves more meat, it looks very skinny, so here (no block, but in fairness, please subscribe to the New York Times so you too can read opinions and blogs from wherever.)

This is getting complicated. These people don't look like your average bloggers, they look more like people working from home, sneezing people very nearby:

Probiotics: Looking Underneath the Yogurt Label - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

referred to by

Can Yogurt Really Make You Healthier? - The Atlantic

And both of these articles must have a bottom line, but NYT is paywalled and "Atlantic" is boring, but I'll force myself to look. 

"Food navigator dot-com" Must need readers...instead of quoting a pertinent statement and an accompanying link, they just point you to the newspaper-rag looking thing.

Yeah, I get it, doctors help doctors, it makes more money, bloggers should help bloggers too, but yogurt-companies have enough money.

But If I argued with the poor semi-professional who pushed "activia" like a proselyte (A new convert for Jesus)

wouldn't I just damage myself, not enlighten her?

Five years from now, once she attends the seminar or reads the book, she'll also have valuable information I could know.

More importantly, she has access to my medical-records and could write some really nasty stuff!.

Best I should shut up, respectfully.

Yes, I'm due for a hose and shitting into a can, but people live off of this shit, who am I to complain.

What's a word meaning extremely smart but extremely evil?

"Machiavellian"?

Anyway, You already know that yogurt doesn't do crap for you, and all those pretty women saying different things (IOW it works, you must be weird) on TV, must have lots of diet-exercise under their belt.

They must be "Saved" or from Iowa, maybe.

So when Activia/Dannon whoever comes along like a snake wrapped around a tree and says Thissss ssstuff workssss, really (for real, so-and-so sssssays so)

You might believe it, or at least spend the bucks to...Ah, that's where they getcha.

For one thing,

(readthefineprint, not everybody has a nice body, maybe you're sick or weird, see adoctor)

And for another, you just spent $20 to find out, so you can write some blog no one reads (ya gotta hook up with NYT or Atlantic, don'tcha-know)

RACKET (the title) Bottom line:

Fantasy/Myth/Politically-correct (said by women with high pedantic voices)

See a doctor.

And, Dear reader, what does the doctor say?

He doesn't know, see a specialist.

And what does the specialist say?

"You have shyznickitis"

"what (o what ever should I Do) is shyznickitis?"

"see your doctor," he says.

Whut?

And an apostate is born! An apostate with a real bad stomach.