A very interesting interview with Josh Viertel, head of Slow Food USA. The piece particularly interrogates the annoying Mark Bittman piece from a couple of weeks ago when he blamed the poor for their own obesity, accusing them of being too lazy to cook for themselves....
Insights from laid-off big law firm associates at my other place: At October 17, 2011 7:56 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said... BL1Y- are you saying that selling houses back and.
Shorter Ann Althouse: With a sales tax, you control what you pay through your shopping decisions. So when you think about it, drastically cutting income taxes and replacing some of.
There is a professional sport lockout going on, which means that an owner is engaged in egregious dissembling. But much of the sports media being what is, he doesn't even need to try that hard. For example, Howard Beck will take to page A1 of the...
A few brief thoughts on the Kony mission. David Dayen: The Administration’s claimed legal justification comes from a law called the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of.
Reading this and this (America's mass incarceration of African-Americans is part of the civilizing process! Because only in the United States are people "sick" of violent crime! And the fact.
Obviously Americans born between 1946 and 1964 (the most common definition of the baby boom) are an extremely diverse lot both sociologically and politically. In this piece I'm addressing a particular subgroup: complacent professional types who have anywhere from vague to sharp memories of 1968, but...
Kindly Ol' Rush Limbaugh gives his endorsement to the Lord's Resistance Army. But don't kid yourself, wealthy white conservatives who get excluded from apocryphal cocktail parties are the most opressed.
As if the mass slaughter of pelicans last week wasn't bad enough, there have been a disturbing number of whooping crane shooting this year. Again, destructive human behavior is why.
Limbaugh loves him some Lord's Resistance Army. Even more disgusting than usual.
Via the always great Sociological Images is this set of excellent posters training kids to not masturbate through a solid regimen of exercise, self-control, and a non-spicy low-meat diet that.
I recently watched Alex Gibney's Catching Hell, which was excellent. Linking together two unjust scapegoats -- Buckner and Steve Bartman -- it perhaps belabors the point about the fake "curses".