Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Fat People are destroying planet.
(Reuters) - Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler," and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
"We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend toward fatness, and recognize it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change," the British scientists said.
They estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one ton of carbon dioxide emissions a year more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tons of CO2 a year in a population of one billion overweight people.
The European Union estimates each EU citizen accounts for 11 tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year.
******This story is swimming in a pool of dumb. I'll diet when Al Gore deflates.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Janeane Garofalo on Olbermann. Gets stupid at 3:00.
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JANEANE GAROFALO:
Thank you. You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. It sounds right and then it doesn't make sense. Which, let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become -- it's like showing Frankenstein's monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don't know, because their limbic brain, we've discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Friday, March 20, 2009
The origin of "March Madness"
The term “March Madness” was popularized by H.V. Porter, who has some sweet hair (that’s him in the picture).The phrase had nothing to do with the NCAA – it actually involved a high school tournament sponsored by the Illinois High School Association, which Porter belonged to.
In 1939, Porter wrote an essay called “March Madness” for the IHSA’s magazine. The first time “March Madness” was used to describe the NCAA tournament was in 1982, when a CBS sportscaster used it.
Even though one of their own coined the term, the IHSA didn’t own the trademark “March Madness.” You might suspect the NCAA snapped it up first – nope. By the time anyone thought to go after a trademark in the 1990s, it had already been taken by a television company. The IHSA bought the rights and then tried to sue the NCAA for using the term, but the United States Court of Appeals decided it was a dual-use trademark, so both parties are able to legally use the phrase.
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