More stuff to rant about

THE total worth of the top 400 wealthiest Americans is $2 trillion, on top of the heap is Bill Gates ($72 billion)--that is the entire economic output of Russia. Meantime, UNICEF proposes to its memberto $10,000. Also, let me ask: To date, how many more dictators and drug lords hide dubious moolah in Switzerland and Luxembourg and remain unconvicted and stay freer than a parrot?

IT's not like I am all-out disgusted by it, just perplexed. And mystified what moneyed people spend their money to accentuate vanity. Ah, my skeptic butt! Do you know that an ideal ingredient for anti-wrinkle cream or injectable serum—surefire replacement for botox—are injections of baby foreskin? Many companies including Skinmedica and Vavelta use baby foreskin removed after circumcision in their anti aging and anti wrinkle creams. According to Skinmedica, their products have used one single foreskin, and that it hasn’t acquired any new foreskin in over 20 years as 1 piece of foreskin is capable of producing 4 acres of fresh and new skin. The cells on the inside of the foreskin are rich in human dermal fibroblasts (HDF), which create collagen. Why don't some people simply enjoy the natural progression of their life-given skin?-nations an institutional 4-year budget of $2,094.5 million (2014-2017). Mr Gates can actually fund UNICEF by himself, with lots more spare change for Dom Perignons and caviars on breaktime.

TIPPING MILLIONAIRES. I do appreciate the tip, the gesture—albeit bombastic and spectacular and internet-savvy. Are you a millionaire? What is $5,000 or even $10,000 to you? A pro athlete can easily hand needy people $10,000 for each made shot, or $100,000 to a cancer patient for a homerun. Am I moved by a $1,000 tip to a waitstaff. I am amused with a smirk. Why not offer the monetary generosity to the entire overworked, underpaid staff instead—maybe 20 of them? If one waiter or waitress deserves the dough, then the whole workforce deserve it, too.

BABY BUDGET. Doting moms and dads are good, I guess. I used to pamper my kids when they were infants and toddlers. But I don't think I'd spend a $48 “baby carrier,” that piece of textile that you wrap around your body like a sash to sling your baby on? I kinda carried my infant that way, too—but with a blanket... Meantime, you know what a “car seat canopy” is? Again, it's a piece of flimsy textile that you cover a baby car seat with--$49.95. I recommend using the same blanket cum baby carrier. Save the dough for the rainy or snowy days.

NEWS (NY Times): “A Lab-Grown Burger Gets a Taste Test.” The taste of the burger made of cow muscle grown in a laboratory was nothing special, but the feat itself is expected to make the case for in vitro meat. MY TAKE: Worse than inorganic and gluten, GMO and shit. What's next? Prozac and Glazed Salmon as a Pill, Gatorade and Hummus as Syrup?

A PITCH by Digestive Architects say: “If you think organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately?” A bad pitch, so bad. I don't argue that most “non-organic” foods cause cancer, but to instill fear and paranoia on people in the name of a merchandise or service is almost tantamount to telling them, “Screw you for not buying my good shit, now you are going to die!” Why don't these smart advertising geeks instead work ways to lower the price of “healthy” foods so majority of consumers could afford them—and so we all live happily ever after?

TY Warner, the Beanie Babies founder, faced up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to federal tax evasion for hiding millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account. (Don't know if he's prosecuted at all though.) He was also ordered to pay a civil penalty of $53 million. The dude is worth $2.7 billion. Meantime, the range of punishment for food stamp fraud in most states--is from 6 months to two years in a state jail and a fine up