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CNN has an article about people staying behind in New Orleans despite evacuation orders. Some key quotes:
“The thing is… most people don’t have cars to leave, don’t have money for gas. Pay for a hotel for that long? I mean, you have to do whatever you have to do, and I guess I’m gonna stay [...]
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It’s a long weekend here in the US after a fraught week, politically speaking — and I don’t know about the rest of you, but I need a drink. So here’s your Friday-night-that-lasts-all-weekend fluff: what’s your favorite drink? My standard is a G&T, but I don’t know if that’s actually my favorite. FJ introduced me [...]
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You guys, I have found my new favorite form of exercise.
Or rather, I have found the perfect circumstances for engaging in one of my old favorite forms of exercise.
Last night, Tari, OTM and I went to Dance Dance Party Party, which is the most brilliant “Why the fuck didn’t I think of that?” idea I’ve [...]
Filed under: Exercise, Fat | 106 Comments »
Hey, look who’s giving fat-hating British politicians what-for in The Guardian today! It’s my lovely co-author, kicking ass as usual. Go read.
ETA: Sanity Watchers warning on the comments there. It’s like the British Broadsheet in that respect. Don’t bother.
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1) As most of you already know, the state of Alabama is going to start charging its fat employees $25 a month for insurance that would otherwise be free.
The State Employees’ Insurance Board earlier this month approved a plan to charge state workers starting in January 2010 if they don’t get free health screenings.
If the [...]
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Though I have become a crazed evangelist of the miracle that is finding a bra that fits properly, I have yet to master the art of buying underwear (which I refuse to call “panties” lest I spend the rest of the day shuddering). Even when I set the bar pretty low (must be approximately my [...]
Filed under: Shopping, Sweet Machine | 157 Comments »
I wrote about Alessandra Stanley’s recent NYT piece on weight loss shows over at Broadsheet today. As always, Sanity Watchers warning x 10,000 applies to comments there (and there aren’t even any yet). Feel free to discuss here, though.
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Shapeling Occhiblu sent a version of this as an e-mail to us yesterday, hoping we could post about it. But she’d basically said it all, so we asked her to guest post. Thanks, Occhiblu!
Note to commenters: This thread will be moderated with a heavier hand than usual. –Kate
By Occhiblu
Sandy at Junkfood Science linked yesterday to [...]
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Y’all, Sweet Machine’s moving tomorrow, Fillyjonk’s off to the beach, and I’ve got 85 things on my plate. (No wonder I’m fat. HAW!) Sadly, the harassment thread is still going strong with over 400 comments, but I thought I’d give you a few new things to discuss while we’re more-or-less away.
1) A WSJ article [...]
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We’ve got a fairly desperate concern troll in the mod queue today; he’s left comments on three different posts in the last hour AND sent an email to Kate about how we are ruining feminism, which is a crock of man-hating shit anyway. Needless to say, he’s banned (thanks for playing, Richard! Feel free to [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Sweet Machine, Trolls, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 617 Comments »
Notes from the Fatosphere
