Pizza is Healthy

MOT reader RU Red State was not pleased with the F the South tirade I linked to below. In response he posted the following comment:

You see the cancer rate in NJ? Who is the dumb F%#&?

I won't touch the second question (although I feel confident we are less dumb than them), but I have seen the cancer rate in NJ and it is among the worst in the country. Perhaps in a future post we can discuss why attorneys general from the Northeast have resorted to suing industrial polluters from the Midwest for sullying our air quality.

*Hint: It has something to do with the fact that wind primarily blows West to East*

But the Minister of Things is not too concerned since he looks at broader health statistics and knows that, overall, he and his are better off in Pizzaland than in the South. According to the United Health Foundation, in overall health NJ ranks 17th most healthy out of 50. The bottom 10? North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, West Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana.