Dr. Phil is being sued. His diet plan is accused of being fraudulent. It goes something like this: eat less calories, exercise, and take some vitamin supplements. Seems that a huge number of folks only listened to the 'take some vitamin supplements' part and are complaining that they didn't lose any weight.

Which just goes to prove that in order to successfully market a diet plan to Americans, you have to ensure that it contains the following components:

1. Eat lots of hamburgers, french fries, and ice cream (7-8 meals a day or more).
2. Sit on the sofa all day long.
3. Magically lose weight.

Don't laugh. Every year a new popular diet book/method comes along prescribing this exact philosophy and makes gazillions of dollars. So I've come up with a new diet. I call it the curdled milk diet. Don't exercise. Eat all you want. Chase it with putrid curdled milk and toss it all back up. Lose weight.

Researchers at the CDC have reverse engineered and re-created the 1918 Spanish flu virus, which killed about 50 million people. We're being told that there's nothing to worry about. They plan to keep their growing stockpile under lock and key at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. Uhm, isn't that just down the road a piece from New Orleans?