Posts by sarcozona
Stop Dieting
Someone really needs to do something about companies like weight watchers. And our idea of fat people needs to change. Fat is not ugly or lazy or even unhealthy in many cases. And dieting does not work. There is a reason that fat people cannot stay thin after they diet and that thin people cannot […]
How many women are worth a man?
Guess three isn’t enough…
double the mushrooms
Means more food (for trees!) The climate is getting warmer and winter is coming later. This means fungi have more time to grow. And fungi make tree food! Fungi play a key role in forest ecosystems, breaking down leaf litter and returning nutrients to trees via their roots. The expanded fruiting season implies a major […]
Small-fries
The media has handled the large number of Democratic presidential candidates badly. The Washington Post‘s David Broder declared (4/27/07) that “six of the eight declared candidates” at the Democrats’ debate in South Carolina “showed themselves to be both substantive and direct in their responses.” The other two he’s talking about are Kucinich and Gavel, who […]
dear creationists/ID people
Calling evolution “Darwinism” is like calling gravity “Newtonism.”
“free trade”
Techdirt on the US’s interpretation of free trade and what it’s doing to poorer countries: the US is using free trade agreements around the world to force US-style intellectual property rules on the rest of the world — often at tremendous harm to those countries. It’s doubly ironic when you realize that intellectual property rules […]
shopping list
I need a new shower curtain. My current curtain came with the apartment. It is a very dark green and is made of a material very like saran wrap. So every morning I struggle in the dark to keep cold air out of my bath without suffocating myself in my exceptionally clingy shower curtain. And […]