Who you callin' fat?
Boston University biochemist Barbara Corkey says that she doesn't believe that overeating causes obesity or diabetes!
According to Bostonia Magazine, Barbara Corkey has five decades of metabolism research experience. She is Boston University's School of Medicine's Zoltan Kohn Professor in Medicine and is a much respected diabetes researcher.. one of her many recent awards was the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, the American Diabetes Association's highest honors.
So.. Barbara knows whereof she speaks, and her utterances on the subject of obesity and diabetes deserve investigation. She suspects that food additives (like emulsifiers and saccharin) as well as environmental factors (perhaps pesticides, arsenic poisoning, smoke) are involved in the development of obesity and Type Two diabetes.
http://www.baderc.org/members/BarbaraCorkey.html
Incidentally, Barbara loves gourmet food and fine wine.. if you follow her on Twitter, you could get some tips on how to fill your life with "good taste."
Now this guy is just plain "fat".. at least above his shoulders.. in my humble opinion.
On the surface, Rush doesn't seem too worried about the reaction to his outbursts about Ms. Fluke. However, under the surface he must be worried.. because he continues to lose sponsors.. I believe he has already lost Allstate Insurance, J.C. Penney, Sears, Bonobos Mens Clothes, AOL and Tax Resolution Services. I have a few questions to ask:
Why did Allstate and Sears and other national companies endorse Rush in the first place?
Why haven't American women recognised before now that they can have an enormous effect on American businesses? Perhaps they have, but have not used their influence very often until now.
What will American women do, now that they are "on a roll" to get groups consisting of all men from deciding on things that affect women's lives? (Remember Lysistrata by Aristophanes!)
I saw a cartoon somewhere that showed someone looking like Rick Santorum being asked by a reporter: "How will women react to your views in the upcoming election?" Rick's answer: "What! When did women get the "vote?" This is, of course, a silly joke.. but sometimes I think that we would do better if more women would get together and use their voting power to elect persons who have the best interests of all American people foremost, rather than keeping the "rich old boys club" status quo.
Loss of a genius!
I was saddened to read that Steve Bridges was found dead at his Los Angeles home last week. He was only 48 years old. Most people remember him for his wonderful impressions of George W. Bush. A New York Times article mentions that it took make-up artist, Mari Enyart three hours to get Steve looking like "W." He also did TV spots made up as Presidents Obama and Clinton. Steve was also good at voice impersonations.. including the aforementioned Rush Limbaugh. His humor will be greatly missed.
Isn't this for the birds?
I just got through filling our sunflow seed feeder and am watching little birds happily peck away. I estimate that there are about 1,000 sunflower seeds left for them to peck.
Meanwhile, I read where the Tate Modern Turbine Hall in London has purchased 8,000,000 of the 100,000,000 porcelain sunflower "seeds" on display in 2010. This was an "artwork" created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Each of the 100,000,000 "seeds" was individually hand-painted by 1,600 Chinese citizens! These "seeds" were then spread out all over the floor of the Tate.. and visitors were encouraged to "walk and roll" through the "seeds" to experience the art work on a personal basis. This didn't last too long, because the "porcelain dust" proved too much for asthmatics and there may also have been lead in the paint that was used.
The 92,000,000 remaining "seeds" were returned to Mr. Ai. Tate officials are not revealing what they paid for the 8,000,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
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Seed you later.
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