THE WAR on Obesity is Driving up Healthcare Costs, not Fatness
An extremely timely article from Slate regarding the complexities of stigma and health when it comes to fatness. Turns out there is ample evidence (pun intended) that stigmatizing a population may lead to the poorer health outcomes, co-morbidity and mortality associated with the so-called disease of "obesity." Can you say spurious? I know that you can. (HINT: stigma is the alcohol, fat is the

Farther than we've ever been is NOT FAR ENOUGH
In a sense, Health Care Reform in the United States took a giant leap forward yesterday. No comprehensive, universal health care plan in the US has ever made it this far. The vote was 220 to 215. Very close. And it came with a price that may have been too much to pay. Don't get me wrong. I'm happy it passed. But I think what the 5 vote margin suggests is that the money being spent by the

Up Against My Limits
Everyone has limits. We have things that we are capable of doing and things we are not. Some of us can sing melodiously. Some of us have tin ears. Some of us can hit a baseball with a bat or a puck with a hockey stick or a golf ball with a club powerfully. Some of us cannot hit the broadside of a barn with a cannon. I remind myself of this when I think of myself as person with disabilities. I

Nothing Works
I'm sitting here installing my printer/scanner/copier software on my computer even though I've had the freaking printer for years. Why? Because like every other gadget this week, it refuses to do what it has always done and is insisting that I'm missing software. If it were just the computer that has given me grief this week I'd be suspicious of my little bout with the trojan a couple of

Well I'm disappointed, but not surprised
Mary Whorley at Whorley Dervish shared Rachel Maddow's School of Crock segment (those of us over 35 know the reference). She writes:The Republicans were there so that Baucus would have plausible deniability along the lines of "the Republicans made me do it," which is politically less damning than "I did it for my corporate masters."This is a game that has been going on in our two party system