Here are some sweet things about all of us in the "American" or "Portlander" categories:
1) We are not that much different from the coke heads when we eat at Famous Dave's. While you might like to polish off your meal of cornbread, pulled pork, baby-back ribs and an entire stalk of corn with a ham and cheese sandwich, it's probably not doing great things for your brain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know your heart is taking a beating (literally, you guys, literally), but what about the ol' noggin? Yale brain scientist Ralph Dileone explains why staying on a diet is so dang difficult: "The motivation to take cocaine in the case of a drug addict is probably engaging similar circuits that the motivation to eat is in a hungry person." Hey, that's a happy story! No wonder gluttony is often lumped in with those other "bad" sins of the Bible. Other researchers say that this is maybe why fat kids turn into fat adults.
2) In better discoveries, how about that airport at PDX? Well, it's apparently the BEST AIRPORT IN THE FREAKING NATION. Shabamsies! I always knew I loved that carpet, but I now realize that the whole place is pretty sweet. Let's be honest, that Wendy's has something going on and isn't it great to have two Powell's bookstores instead of one? And after visiting many airports in the states and internationally, I celebrate free WiFi with great glee.
3) President Obama shows up unannounced in Afghanistan to see what people think about his leather jacket. Not sure he pulls it off...
Good on you, America/Portland!
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Yeah PDX has been ranked the #1 airport for several years now. The problem with those rankings is that people bitch about any airport over a certain size. So if the airport serves a city that's, say, Boston-size or bigger, there's going to be many more delays, it'll be more crowded, harder to maintain, etc. I mean, it'd be completely impossible for JFK or LAX to be happy places just because of how much they have going on. And the perks of PDX come at the cost of fewer airlines and destinations. I'm sure that the ABSOLUTE best airport in the country is in Nantucket or something and is staffed by a kindly old man named Jed who makes you homemade cookies, but they can only fly you from one side of the island to the other.
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