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Last Thursday, Donald Trump announced that he’d picked Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This is a yuuuge appointment. If Bobby Junior winds up overseeing HHS, he will be in charge of the federal agency with the largest budget of them all. (more…)
Vladimir Putin enjoying a topless Ukrainian Femen activist’s attempt to disrupt his visit to Germany in April 2014.
Vladimir Putin enjoying a topless Ukrainian Femen activist’s attempt to disrupt his visit to Germany in April 2014.
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Everyone in their right mind knows that most women are extremely annoying, extremely entitled, and extremely irrational, which automatically qualifies them as extremists. (more…)
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In Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Whale, Moby Dick gets referenced a lot, but its subject isn’t an actual whale. Charlie (Brendan Fraser), the protagonist, is rather a monstrous human leviathan whose massiveness can easily disgust others, much like the monstrously-deformed John Merrick, who was depicted in David Lynch’s 1980 film The Elephant Man. Merrick had to live masked and wrapped in canvas so as not to shock people. (more…)
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Nick Jeelvy welcomed frequent Counter-Currents contributor Stephen Paul Foster back to The Writer’s Bloc to discuss his eerily predictive 2003 book Desolation’s March: The Rise of Personalism and The Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America. (more…)
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“O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’r the land of . . .”
The average American adult has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28.2. (more…)
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I seldom have occasion to say nice things about television shows. I’ll make an exception for My 600-lb Life, which has a great deal of cautionary and educational value about a growing problem in society. As the name implies, it’s a reality TV program in which the guest stars usually begin around approximately 600 pounds (273 kilos). Some are less and some are more. (more…)
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943.
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It’s no big secret that eating in a healthy way is an important part of life. Recently, I attended a family reunion where the subject of healthy vs. unhealthy eating became an unavoidable topic of discussion. One middle-aged couple there had lost weight – they got many compliments on their looks. This wasn’t the case everywhere at the reunion though. One woman was obese, a condition that added complications when she got COVID-19. That woman’s sister (also obese) had a husband who divorced her and married a different woman. Being heavy has negative consequences indeed. Two of the moms I talked to had children who were binge eaters. (more…)
Statue of Mars in the Forum Transitorium in Rome
Statue of Mars in the Forum Transitorium in Rome
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We live in a time of artificial hysteria over many things, including the supposed murders of innocent black criminals by white “racists.” But a much more serious problem is obesity. In 1960, less than 15% of Americans were obese. Today that number is 42%, with a full two-thirds overweight. This is not simply because of high rates of obesity among blacks or Hispanics; according to CDC data from 2017-2018, 42% of non-Hispanic whites are obese. How did this happen, and how should we address the fat question? (more…)
