Most mornings, I have a banana for breakfast. Among other things, of course. There’s a banana bowl at the Underground, usually full of bananas, but sometimes not, and that’s where my banana comes from. Today, my banana had googly eyes. I don’t know why my banana had googly eyes — none of the others did […]
Less than a year ago, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta drew some pretty righteous fire for its childhood obesity campaign, and now a similar campaign in Minnesota is opening old wounds. Critics of both charge that shaming people promotes unhappiness, not health, and that shaming children is just plain mean. It’s also redundant of what their […]
What’s the big deal about organ trafficking, anyway? And I don’t mean herding frightened children into slaughterhouses to harvest their organs. It’s wrong to frighten children. I mean the Brazilian woman who’s decided that she’d rather live out her days in marginal poverty with one kidney than in abject poverty with two. Or hell, the […]
