Instead of “instagramming (our) breakfast and tweeting (our) First World problems,” former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson wants us to use our mad social media skills to pressure congress to lower the national debt. Simpson issues this curiously lighthearted call to arms during a YouTube video produced by The Can Kicks Back, then dances Gangnam Style with the organization’s […]
I’m reserving a room for a one-week stay somewhere north of here. Maryland, I think, although the choice feels arbitrary and I’m having second thoughts about the trip overall. The clerk, a middle aged Indian man (red dot Indian, not woo-woo), needs $300 to hold my reservation. I produce an envelope of crisp, new twenty-dollar […]
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 […]
