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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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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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-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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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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Ms. Aretha Franklin sings “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” while wearing the best hat in the history of millinery.
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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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Holy crap, it’s actually going to happen. Congratulations to us all!
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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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Sasha Obama slideshow!
I cannot wait to see pictures of this child with a puppy.
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Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
