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<p>Alex Balk <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2010/11/eggs-pretty-much-everything-else-bad-for-you" target="_self">urges us</a> to live a little:</p>
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<p>Everything that doesn&#39;t taste like crap is full of stuff that is in some  way or another bad for you. You are going to die no matter what. Eat  whatever you want. The oft-repeated Keynesian maxim that &quot;in the long  run we are all dead&quot; is well and good, but it ignores  <img alt="McRib" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451c45669e2013488b655cc970c" src="https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/6a00d83451c45669e2013488b655cc970c-320wi.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" title="McRib" /> that fact that for  a long time we are all alive. For, like, AGES. Think about how long <em>today</em> has been, and it&#39;s not even five yet!</p>
<p>Yes, life is a beautiful valuable  thing and there are so many joys along the way and etc., but let&#39;s  admit that 90% of it is suffering, misery, pain, standing in line behind  some idiot who can&#39;t figure out how that he doesn&#39;t have enough money  in his balance to withdraw the amount of cash he keeps asking for from  the ATM, heartbreak, defeat and &quot;Seinfeld&quot; reruns. A couple of eggs, or a  McRib, or excellent Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey sipped outdoors  on a crisp day while you smoke a cigarette: if these things are going to  shave a few years off the time you would otherwise spend drumming your  fingers on the counter as you wait for the laggard at the Duane Reade to  ring up your single-item purchase, so be it.</p>
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