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This revolting Donna Simpson person weighs 602 pounds, and is trying to get to 1,000 pounds. Why? She makes her money with a website in which pervs (like her kinky boyfriend) pay to watch her shove food in her mouth and jiggle around. “I love eating and people love watching me eat,” she says. “It…

A counterfactual:

Somebody’s asking for trouble: This is a serious business. A team of researchers at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is preparing to bring out the first installment of Corpus Coranicum – which purports to be nothing less than the first critically evaluated text of the Qur’an ever to be produced. What this means is that…

Journalist Sandro Magister: In June 1991 John Paul II returned to his native Poland for the fourth time. The Wall had fallen, the soviet empire was in pieces. But the pope refused to celebrate. On the contrary, he had never before shown such angry with his compatriots. He gave a number of impromptu speeches, and…

From the website of Bible Believers Evangelical Association, the Dallas-area ministry run by Ruth and Leon Bates, the couple responsible for this famous folk art image of the Rapture: NOTICE the airplane crashing into the skyscraper. Leon had this painting made in 1974, 27 years before the New York tragedy of 9/11/01. When teaching or…

So says John Lanchester in this compulsively readable London Review of Books piece, which you might not be able to put down (so to speak) even if you know diddly-squat about the British economy. The passage about the coming cuts in public spending are pretty staggering. But this part jumped out at me: Anyone prone…

I basically agree with Ross Douthat that one problem with American life, especially American political life, is that in this country, we don’t know how to handle tragedy. We like our narratives simple and clear. Writes Ross: But the idea that many debacles flow from choices made by decent, well-intentioned human beings is more difficult…

In a brief about the religion of capitalism, David Rieff points us to this parable from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s longtime investment partner, who imagines Basicland, a spendthrift nation that ignored the wisdom of self-discipline and thus could not arrest the causes of its own decline.

In a melancholy meditation on the deeply flawed character of Cesar Chavez, Richard Rodriguez offers this: The speech Chavez had written during his hunger strike of 1968, wherein he compared the UFW to David fighting Goliath, announced the Mexican ­theme: “I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is…

From Slate’s review of Dianne Ravitch’s new book, in which the former advocate of No Child Left Behind and charter schools admits they’ve failed. Excerpt: The data, as Ravitch says, disappoints on other fronts, too–not least in failing to confirm high hopes for charter schools, whose freedom from union rules was supposed to make them…
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