The Truth About Kale

For the first 60 years of my life, I knew nothing about kale. I had never even encountered the word. Then… there it was. On every restaurant menu and on every foodie’s lips. Not only were all my posh friends ordering it, they were raving about how great it was. Healthy and delicious, they said.

I was not interested. Kale is, first of all, dark green in color, which is a reliable indicator of bitterness. It is flat and dry and wrinkled, which is visually repulsive. Even the aroma is off-putting. I was eventually persuaded to try it. And guess what? It was even worse than I’d feared!

Why, then, are my friends still recommending it? I can think of only one answer to that. They are lying. They don’t like it, but they think they should. Much like, in our early teens, my peers and I would pretend to like the taste of beer.

Frankly, I don’t think humans were made to eat kale. And now, finally, I have some proof. Take a look here.

Nah. Let’s take a taxi… 

When in the Big Apple, K prefers the subway to vehicular transportation. I don’t get it. The subways are dirty and crowded. But I comply. Next time we are there, I’m going to remind her that there is yet another reason to call an Uber: the crazy amount of violence occurring in NYC’s underground stations. It seems like every week now I’m looking at a YouTube video of some crazy beating up someone on the platform. The victim is usually a woman, and an older one at that. The beating goes on while other subway riders look the other way.

Now these nutcases have raised the ante. Beatdowns are passé. The new thing is pushing people onto the tracks. So far this year, there have been 25 such incidents, including two that were fatal.

In the clip below, you can see a particularly appalling attack of this kind: a full-grown man being body-slammed into the tracks.