Daily Archives: 9 October 2011
What Price Fat?
I can’t prove it, but I think that one of my comments on a friend’s Facebook thread got deleted. I say I can’t prove it because I hesitated before hitting “enter” to submit since I knew it would offend some of the people commenting. So maybe it just never posted. But in case it got deleted, here it is again: “there are people who are attractive in spite of being fat, but I don’t know of anyone who is attractive because of it.” Now you can see why I hesitated. People who are overweight and don’t want to be are
Pharyngula is Part of the Problem
One corner of the left-wing internet that clearly never got the memo about the left’s new tone is Pharyngula, the comment section of which continues to be populated by some of the most asinine, juvinile people you are likely to encounter in a political forum. Noah owes me 40min. of my life for getting me involved in a comment thread there yesterday. The topic du jour was how “organized atheism” is getting more progressive. In a classic false dichotomy unbecoming of anyone with scientific training, PZ Myers has decided that libertarians need to shit or get off the pot about
