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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez “No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts (“According to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, one out of three doctors responds to obesity negatively and associates it with poor hygiene, hostility, dishonesty, and noncompliance, viewing fat patients as ‘lazy, lacking in self-control, non-compliant, unintelligent, weak-willed and dishonest.’”) Trump […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez What Are We Doing Here? (“A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest.”) The NFL Is Right, Trump Is Wrong: Dissenting Players Are Patriotic (“Dissent is patriotic, because it affirms that our country is worth […] Bookish Linkage Have a look at Napoleon’s traveling library Bookish Lists: best books about Puerto Rico; best Iraqi writing about the war; 9 protest books to read now Nonbookish Linkage Birth of a white supremacist 5 ways white people can fight white supremacy And race remains South Dakota’s third rail What […] Here’s some Christmas cheer for you. “A 44-year-old woman stole her 3-year-old grandson’s Christmas gifts and sold them for crack.” (via) A man is suing a popular blog for defamation for publishing a “satirical” post with the headline: “Jersey City Pedophile Loses His $4 Million Lotto Ticket, Sues the Whole World.” Now why would anyone […] This week’s edition of the follies — the first in quite a while — consists entirely of headlines in the interweb tubes this week. Sometimes, that’s all it takes. Convicted Kidnapper Sues His Victims for Breach of Contract German man sues Pope for violating seatbelt laws by standing and waving from popemobile Lawyers Reportedly […] For future reference, there is no First Amendment right to attend illegal cockfights. A hunter in Alaska is suing the National Park Service for threatening to prosecute him if he keeps hunting moose from his hovercraft in a federal preserve. Meanwhile, in nearby British Columbia a man who was abandoned as a teenager is being […] |
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