Last night, a reader named Becky drew my attention to Broadsheet’s coverage of Kylie Lannigan’s fight to adopt a child. Lannigan and her husband spent three years jumping through bureaucratic hoops and were deemed potentially wonderful parents — except that Lannigan weighs 277 pounds. The last hoop they want her to jump through? Losing more … Continue reading »
Posted in June 2007 …
Type 1 Diabetes and Heart Disease; Fatter Is Better?
A study on Type 1 diabetes and heart disease from the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences has shown yet another obesity “paradox.” This one, at least, is actually sort of paradoxical. Although investigators noted a positive association for all measures of fatness and having any coronary artery calcification, in the two-thirds of patients … Continue reading »
Let Me See You Shake It, Big Girls
If you missed The Glamazons on America’s Got Talent last night (as I did, on account of not knowing there was a show called America’s Got Talent), please go check out this clip. Seriously, you have to go watch, if only to see the hamster wheel in The Hoff’s head turn as he thinks, “I … Continue reading »
The Virtual Hurricane Party (tm Melissa) Continues
It is SO FUCKING WRONG that there is no Shakesville right now, when subpoenas are flying, Giuliani is slagging off Clinton for his efforts against terrorism (?!), Elizabeth Edwards is slagging off Ann Coulter (!!) , and most importantly, Tony Blair is being compared to different dog breeds. The last of which has led to … Continue reading »
Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol
So say 40.4% of people 18-24, according to The Brogan Survey. Asked to rank obesity, smoking, drugs and alcohol in order of perceived “greatest threat to public health,” most people overall (38%) put drug abuse first and obesity (30.8%) second. But among the youngsters, fat was ranked number one. Even if you believe obesity is … Continue reading »
One Less Reason to Use MySpace
Joy Nash got a real blog! It is, of course, fatrant.com. And I’m not only telling you this because she called me a genius on it. I’m pretty much the only fat blogger alive who hasn’t posted “A Fat Rant” yet — only because I figured all my readers had already seen it 20 times … Continue reading »
Temporary Shakesville
Blogging has resumed at Shakespeare’s Sister while work to restore Shakesville continues.
Just Because You’re a Child Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Asking for It
Via Lauredhel, here’s your head-exploder of the day: Girl provoked pedophile – Judge. A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL was raped by TWO MEN, and the one who was convicted on TWO COUNTS OF RAPE OF A CHILD UNDER THIRTEEN was sentenced to TWO YEARS and will be GETTING OUT AFTER ONE. Sorry, didn’t mean to yell. No, … Continue reading »
The War on Fat Kids Spreads to the Library
Last week, a reader named April, who’s a children’s librarian, sent me a note about The Gulps, by Rosemary Wells. Here’s what she has to say about it: I read the book when it arrived at my library and was appalled. The story is about a family called the Gulps, and it’s one of the … Continue reading »
It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere
And although Shakesville’s still down, the virtual pub is open over at the old site. Also, William K. Wolfrum has a Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime for you. And all loyal subjects of Queen Cunt of Fuck Mountain are encouraged to hate Chris Matthews more than ever.
