Via Reuters: Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says. So obesity adds to global warming, which we know is responsible for pretty much all of the ills of society. And they didn’t factor in the air conditioning? The

Thing In a Jar. 500 Years of Women 

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Progressive Media USA – the David Brock-helmed group organized to be the main soft-money advertising vehicle for Democrats in the fall – is ditching its previously announced $40 million attack effort against John McCain,  after Barack Obama’s camp told supporters not to give money to independent expenditure groups. That does not mean that McCain will not be attacked.  Rather, it means that such attacks will be coordinated through the DNC or Obama’s campaign infrastructure. Open Left’s Chris Bowers wrote

The comments to my critique of Matt Bai’s New York Times Magazine profile of Sen. John McCain appear to have settled into a debate over the Vietnam service records of the candidates for the presidency in 2004.  This was perhaps to be expected, for reasons revealed below.  However, inasmuch as “The Big Picture(s)” and its follow-ups are conncerned with… the big picture, it might be useful to take a second look at

Here.  Which is why I know that the spittle-flecked uber-douchebag will be happy to set an example.  More on Keith’s very special comment.

In “The Big Picture(s)” — an extended analysis of the establishment media’s coverage of the conflict in Iraq — one theme which emerged was that the media frequently invoked Vietnam as an analogy, even before the emergence of the Sunni insurgency.  Moreover, the establishment media evoked a particular narrative of the Vietnam War which ignored the ongoing historical debate over the course that conflict ultimately took.  The news consuming public was

I was kidding yesterday, but apparently Luis Salgado did not appreciate the deadpan tone: Salgado, 28, owner of the Ill Skillz (4948 N. 5th) tattoo parlor just got a portrait of Clinton inked on his leg at a tattoo convention in Baltimore. *** …Salgado’s new ink is featured in Tattoo Review. The mag’s publisher Carey Exton says he thinks many tattooed people are for Clinton because she “tells it like it

From Attack Machine: The Australian: There is a certain familiarity to the concomitant series of actions and reactions when disaster strikes in the world. The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with food and medical supplies, and transport planes, helicopters and floating hospitals to help those devastated by natural disaster. Then,

The Art of Manliness suggests one hundred must-read books for men. For the most part, I approve, though I have to say that non-English authors are sadly underrepresented. What I mean to say is, almost all of these are well worth the reading, IMO. And don’t miss the review section, “Priapus.” UPDATE: How manly do I like my literature to be? I prefer masculine rhyme. Double-Dactyl Higgledy-Piggledy Dactyls in dimeter,