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...Folks who like to blame the agro-food industry quickly argued that pesticides in food might have a hormone-like effect on children's bodies. Many pediatric endocrinologists, however, believe the suspected change has more to do with the extraordinary increase in childhood obesity over the past two decades. Fat cells produce leptin, a protein known to help trigger puberty. With more fat cells churning out leptin, earlier puberty would seem highly likely...
...listen to the Democrats - Dickensian in their tenderness for the little folk, for the janitors and maids and, presumably, for the Chicano pool boys in attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One would think that Clinton had invented this giant watermelon economy all by himself, and that the Los Angeles convention was a kind of multicultural communion of saints...
...today, the message of the old union films is distant and irrelevant. The mills and factories that unionists fought to organize are now in China and Mexico. This is the postindustrial age, when most new-media employees do quite well without collective bargaining. So do most Americans. We are fat and happy--and socially amnesiac...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
...tobacco while turning my back on food programs for starving kids. I've never vetoed a gun-control bill; all my guns are fake, Senator. I've never rushed to the defense of Kuwaiti oil fields while ignoring genocide in Africa, because big oil companies that line your fat pockets aren't concerned with black Africa. Those are all your productions of your company.... [The American people] want chase scenes and car crashes. They want firm breasts and tight-assed Latino men. They want their cowboys to be strong and silent. They want their cops to bend the rules...