According to the US government, I am overweight. I’m 5’8” tall and this morning I weighed in at 187 pounds, which gives me a body mass index (BMI) of 28.4. That’s pushing the upper limits of the “overweight” category, trending toward the dreaded “obese” label. I have resolved to lose weight, not only for personal [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 22, 2009
The Return of the Idiot
I just finished reading The Return of the Idiot (El Regreso del Idiota), by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa. This book is the 2007 follow-up to Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot (El Manual del Perfecto Idiota Latinoamericano) written six years earlier. The two volumes examine the reasons for [...]
July 16, 2009
Lagniappe – July 2009
National People’s Radio – I’ve been listening to NPR a lot lately, and I realized that they’ve really only got one story. Someone somewhere depends on some government program, and that government program is underfunded. That’s it. That’s the only thing happening in this country on any given day according to NPR. You’d think that, [...]
July 13, 2009
Caritas In Veritate
President Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI last week at the Vatican. During the meeting, the Pope provided the president with a copy of his new encyclical letter, Caritas In Veritate. Most of the press coverage has focused on the pro-life elements of the treatise and the obvious disagreements between the Church and President Obama [...]
July 6, 2009
Independence Day
Another round of Tea Party rallies was held all across the country on Saturday. I haven’t seen so many angry conservatives gather in one place since the Dixie Chicks came to town. Then again, conservatives (and the rest of us, for that matter) have a lot to be angry about lately. So it’s probably fitting [...]
