They All Got fat

Has anyone else noticed that Aretha Franklin has gained an obscene amount of weight lately? She sang the national anthem (I think it was the national anthem- I couldn't really hear it that well because the sound was sort of distorted by a superdense mass). So did Al Gore. I mean, come on. The reason he is so worried about global warming is because he doesn't want to sweat through his sports jackets so much. He used to be cooler. In more ways than one.

On the other hand you have Al Roker who has actually lost (and this is my estimate) 6.4 billion pounds. That means that he would actually be able to give one of those pounds each to every living human. Pretty impressive, no? And the guy has kept the weight off (is stomach-stapling cheating?) despite his having his own show on the Food Network. (Move over Alton Brown).