AB-BULL

Marketers of FastAbs were lying when they said you could get "rock hard" abs without exercising, simply by strapping a little electronic belt around your waist and then sitting on your lazy behind and reading the paper, or eating ice cream, or whatever. Thank God for the FTC, I guess. Read the article about the $5 million settlement in the Daily Herald, here, and read the press release at the FTC's web site here.

The settlement is not an admission of guilt on the part of the marketers, of course, but it only took me five minutes of semi-curious searching on the web to figure out that I probably should spend my thirty bucks somewhere else -- on down payment on a new pair of running shoes, for example.