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...Between 1832 and the Civil War, Uncle Sam was portrayed in everything from pajamas to eveningwear. He was young, old, fat and thin. At one point he was even a tantrum-throwing toddler. It wasn't until 1856 that Uncle Sam grew his first beard, which he would alternately gain and lose until Abraham Lincoln was elected President four years later. Through Lincoln, the Union became associated with the image of a tall, lanky man with a beard - an image that transferred, and stuck, to Uncle Sam forever after...
...boat taking Malone back to the U.S., where a critics' group gives him the coveted Leni Riefenstahl Award for his films Die You American Pigs and America Sucks the Big One. But the auteur is not as popular with "real" Americans. He is called a "fat, ignorant, America-hating traitor," a "sack o' shit" and, by the ghost of J.F.K., "a douche...
...Moore, though, is the main victim. The movie's take on him can be synopsized in the title of a book published within a few weeks of the Fahrenheit 9/11 opening: Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man. (That was a riff on Al Franken's best seller Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations.) Malone is more or less accused of treason: giving aid and comfort to the enemy by making movies that "hate America." One soldier back from Iraq says that he and his buddies found a lot of Malone DVDs when they...
...budget shortfall. Recently, in response to spiraling state revenues, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 was forced to announce more than $1 billion in budget cuts, affecting towns and cities across the Commonwealth. As Patrick recently said, “This is not about cutting so-called fat. This is going to cut muscle, because the scale of the issue requires that.” The rash of budget cuts facing successful programs is unfortunate, but understandable. In hard times, sacrifices must be made, and there is no painless way to eliminate funding for vital state services...
...Goodbye, metabolic. Don’t wait till you get sick. No! No! No!”Maybe as an American I’m just desensitized to obesity, but the last time I went to Tokyo, I don’t think I saw a single fat person. And that was in March, right before the slim-down program went into effect. It seemed like a memo for the States had gotten mixed up somewhere along the Pacific. Why was Japan, one of the slimmest countries in the world, where sweetened red beans count as dessert, undertaking such...