Monday, November 29, 2004

Obesity Tourism: This is the most unusual weight loss plan I've ever heard of.
Robert Mugabe, dictator of Zimbabwe, "has come up with a bizarre proposal to solve the food crisis threatening half its population with starvation. [He] wants to bring in obese tourists from overseas so that they can shed pounds doing manual labour on land seized from white farmers."
No, seriously. (Via Rand Simberg.)