“Social situations make people feel self-conscious about what they wear and what they eat to the point where they feel they’re being judged for every morsel that touches their lips,” Martin Binks, director of behavioral health at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, said in a university news release. In fact, overweight and obese people [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Disadvantaged youth everywhere
The troubles began as a quiet protest linked to the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre in Rosengård that housed a mosque, but have spread to become a general expression of discontent among disadvantaged youths. The police “think they can appease us by joking with us, but they hassle us all the time, they [...]
People respond to save themselves and gain power
Ah, the bloviation over the Milgram experiment: His experiment in its standard form included a fake shock machine, a “teacher,” a “learner” and an experimenter in a laboratory setting. The participant was told that he or she had to teach the student to memorize a pair of words, and the punishment for a wrong answer [...]
Modern society makes us fat
The constant thing we’ve heard in America for the last 20 years is “You fat, gluttonous Americans, you should feel guilty. You’re overweight and it’s your fault.” But all of a sudden, we’re seeing the same problems in places where 20 years ago all they worried about was hunger: in Egypt, and among blacks in [...]
Globalization is war on all but the multinational super-rich
This is a class struggle; it has always been a class struggle and it is always going to be a class struggle. We can cloak the issue of globalization in the mantle of altruism, that this is good for all concerned, but that is just not so. Globalism is good for the investment class and [...]
ObamaWatch: Rahm Emmanuel on 21 taped conversations with Blagojevich
President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations by the feds — dealing with his boss’ vacant Senate seat! Sun Times Hope… Change… They changefully hoped that by claiming their own investigation found no wrongdoing, you’d go back to TV and beer. Let’s see where this goes.
When the real solutions are not socially acceptable, we turn to illusions
Topic: climate change. Solution: stop human growth, reduce population, reduce unnecessary use of power — this requires telling Joe Sixpack he can’t have a giant pickup truck, Martha Upperclassuburbanwife that she can’t fly to Rio, and your average dumb liberal cubicle dwelling apartment voter that social welfare programs must die so we stop breeding parasites. [...]
Nanny State and hippies agree: don’t reward gifted
Officials plan to abandon a decades-old policy that sorts second-grade students, like Dr. Seuss’s Sneetches, into those who are gifted (the Star-Belly sort) and those who are not. Several other school systems in the region identify children in the same manner. But Montgomery education leaders have decided that the practice is arbitrary and unfair. Two-fifths [...]
A regular cycle or a disruption of a cycle
Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003, according to NASA scientists, in the latest signs of what they say is global warming. “The ice tells us in a very real way how the climate is changing,” said Luthcke, who will [...]
Apple not making transition from fad to pillar of industry
A report by the NPD Group, which tracks retail sales, showed that Apple store sales declined 1% in November compared with a year ago, even at a time when PC sales increased 2%. Barack Obama Press Agency (BOPA) Just thought I’d post a little good news we can all get behind.
