Posted on July 13, 2009 by fillyjonk
It appears that Obama and his administration, while educating themselves admirably on health care issues as they’ve been doing for the past several months, have also clued in to the fact that there are doctors who aren’t on TV. Even before the inauguration, there were reports that Obama had asked Sanjay Gupta, a fatphobic blowhard [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by Sweet Machine
Jezebel points us to a maddeningly obtuse series of recent articles about the Obamas’ eating habits. (There’s even an [unofficial] Obama food blog, for the truly obsessive.) Apparently the Obamas are baffling the pundit class by sometimes eating vegetables, and sometimes eating burgers. It’s true! Apparently this magical family is able to eat French freedom [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2009 by Kate Harding
-Lauredhel: Fat acceptance and Oppression Olympics fail on The Gruen Transfer
An excellent elaboration of Rule 11, among other things.
The critique of the panellists completely fails to connect this one simple fact: That arguing “you wouldn’t tell racist or homophobic jokes, so why tell fat jokes?” misses the point that people do tell racist and homophobic jokes. Bram [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 by Sweet Machine
Via Rachel at The-F-Word, the HuffPo is reporting that calorie restriction was a Bush-administration-approved torture technique, and the justification for its legality was that people do it voluntarily. We just call it “dieting” instead of “torture.”
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kate Harding
Ms. Aretha Franklin sings “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” while wearing the best hat in the history of millinery.
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kate Harding
Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kate Harding
These are my favorite new shoes.
Please imagine them sailing at George W. Bush’s head.
Bush will still be in office for almost two hours. Plenty of time for you to join in the virtual shoe throw, too!
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Sweet Machine
Holy crap, it’s actually going to happen. Congratulations to us all!
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Posted on December 15, 2008 by Kate Harding
So, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on sugared soft drinks (among other things), and apparently calling it an “obesity tax.” (The NYT doesn’t call it that or imply that Paterson does, but the Daily News does; make of that what you will.)
I admit I’m not that fussed about the tax itself [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by Kate Harding
Sasha Obama slideshow!
I cannot wait to see pictures of this child with a puppy.
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