"Don’t blame me — I voted for Kodos"
By If this, this, and this are any indication, Ann Althouse wasn’t held enough as a child.
Though with insightful commentary like this, I don’t see why she has to beg people to vote for her:
One thing I didn’t think about, however, and wish I’d put in the original post, is that plenty of fat people themselves support regulation like this. It’s not just a matter of feeling alarmed about what is happening to other people. Some of this is alarm about one’s own body. People cannot control their own weight, so it must be some outside force making them fat. This failure to take personal responsibility is a downward spiral. There will never be enough regulation to make people thin. After every ban, people will wolf down whatever is still legal, and then cry for more help. If you keep an honest tally of how many calories you consume, you’ll see it’s your own fault if you’re fat. It may be a terrible fault to overcome, but it is still your fault. If you think it isn’t, it will only become harder to overcome.
Which may be why people are getting so fat. They’ve been lured into thinking that their bodies are not their own responsibility.
. . . meanwhile, TIDOS Yankee is whimpering about his current fourth-place standing.