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(The fatter we are, or at least the more obese we are, the more likely we are to get virtually every major chronic disease.)
Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters, wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
what many mean by their accusation “this is getting too political” is that the person or church or artist being accused is articulating (or inferring) a political position at odds with the accuser’s personal party or preference. It’s not so much that the accuser takes issue with the idea of things “getting political,” it’s that, for them, things are getting political on the wrong side.
Death to Deconstruction
Joshua S. Porter
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