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  • Geographically Undesirable

    That's how my mom described the girlfriend I was pursuing in 1974. She lived 30 miles away. In rural Idaho that meant I skipped someone in our town of 3,000 and passed by the next town of 1,200 to go see my sweetie. I persisted for three months before agreeing with Mom. The 30 mile drive made her Geographically Undesirable. If you're ...
    Posted to Green Room by MichaelNW on October 26, 2008

  • Regarding the Wall-E article...

    ''Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.'' You'll find no bigger supporter of the first amendment than me. However, I think the statement above, quoted from the article is a little biased. To me, it sounds like someone who is just looking for a reason to look down on ...
    Posted to Green Room by CWickham on July 11, 2008

  • Fat enough

    I couldn't even finish this article. I am sure that some people can't help being fat. All your science aside I have known many people that went from an active lifestyle to an inactive one and gained a lot of weight. Period. If you don't care enough about your own body to eat right, exercise, and generally take care of the one and only thing in ...
    Posted to Green Room by digitalmonkeys on July 11, 2008

  • Are you crazy?

    ''But there's little evidence that overeating causes obesity on an individual level and no real reason to think that anyone can lose a lot of weight by dieting.'' Wow... That was, well...stupid. So, there's no evidence that our lifestyles are the cause of weight gain. The follow-up sentence was even more intelligent. That children who watch TV ...
    Posted to Green Room by Xnegd on July 11, 2008

  • WALL-E

    I disagree that Wall-E makes a connection between obesity and environmental issues. The film clearly indicates that the ''loss of bone mass'' occurred because of space travel, and the availability of hoverchairs (originally for the elderly). The environment was a mess before humans left Earth, and the obesity occurred after, and partly becuase ...
    Posted to Green Room by Jevanyn on July 11, 2008

  • Take a load off; you're getting riled for the wrong reasons

    I am really sick and tired of this new talk about Wall-e hating fat people...and it's only just begun I'm sure. Every slightly overweight person is likely to have this kind of reaction. I'm pretty disappointed in Slate too because normally I'm not exposed to such backward thinking as this article entails. The main jest I've gotten is that fat ...
    Posted to Green Room by Raynabeth on July 11, 2008

  • If the Nano is India's Model T ...

    ... then there might be hope for humanity after all. Any car that aims to reach the developing world in the twenty-first century is going to have to be one thing: efficient. Otherwise, the target market won't be able to afford the gas to run it. The Nano already gets 50 miles per gallon - it'll only go up from there. Rich countries like the U.S. ...
    Posted to Foreigners by jbyoder on January 15, 2008