THE MILLER’S CROSSING
I’d always wondered what happened to take Dennis Miller over to the dark side. After reading this bit, I don’t have any more of an idea why, but it highlights just how far this formerly funny man has fallen.
Lordy, I hope getting old doesn’t turn me into a washed up, cryptofascist, aging [...]
BBC NEWS | Americas | Obesity cost US $75bn, says study
That, combined with
This piece in the Atlantic, from last year’s Real State of the Union
makes me wonder whether we should bother trying to improve health care at all. We all look for solutions ex post facto; gastric bypasses after the fact instead of [...]
BarlowFriendz: Coda
I don’t know if Barlow’s right or not. It’ll come out eventually, one way or the other. What I do know is that once, about 9 years ago, I went out for beers with Spalding Grey and some friends after he’d performed at my college, and then walked him back to the [...]
Horse Slaughter Awareness Campaign
I was at the King of Prussia Mall today, an experience in and of itself, when I saw several odd kiosk-posters:
Intrigued, I went to the website when I got home.
What would you like to bet that these people eat hamburgers without a second thought, but are getting weepy about “Brown Beauty and [...]
U.S. Says It Will Contest WHO Plan to Fight Obesity
… roughly translated, this overreaction sounds like at least one of two things.
“Ain’t no tofu-eating, whale-hugging, strong-currency-carrying Yu-ro-pee-an organization gonna tell me whether or not I can eat Big Macs for a year and still feel virtuous for drinking Diet Coke.”
“Darn them Yu-ro-pee-ans for [...]