Brown Fat and Robots riding Camels

I just found out today we have a second kind of fat (no kidding) - brown fat.  You're likely thinking "Thanks jerkoff, that's all I need!"


Like I don't have enough problems already.



  Not to worry, it's healthy and actually helps burn the white fat (or Fat fat).  So, you know, GO BROWN!

  [Now I'm curious how many hits for UPS I'll get for that.]
  The other startling thing I learned this week was that arab camel racing enthusiasts are so rich they're buying robot jockeys to ride in these races as opposed to their old method of buying children from poor neighboring countries to be the jockeys.

  Of course, they didn't do this on their own.  It took international humanitarian outrage at all the children-buying a/k/a slave trading before they threw up their hands in frustration "What's the point of having all this oil money if we can't buy a few slave children to jockey our camel races?  Next they'll be telling us we shouldn't stone women to death for adultery if they've been raped.  What?!  They're already complaining about that?!"

If I were god... I'd still let the children be the jockeys, but the slave traders would be the camels.  I think a 5 mile course in the midday desert sun would make the point, don't you?


Camels ridden by mechanical robots race to the finish during a six kilometer race at the 12th International Camel Race in Kebd February 14, 2012. According to organizers, camel jockeys were replaced by mechanical robots in 2005 due to international pressure because camel owners were found to be involved in human trafficking, buying children from countries like Pakistan and India for their smaller frame and lighter weight to ride on the camels.