betteroffed » politics http://www.betteroffed.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:16:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the submarines cover the beatles http://www.betteroffed.com/2010/08/14/the-submarines-cover-the-beatles/ http://www.betteroffed.com/2010/08/14/the-submarines-cover-the-beatles/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:23:36 +0000 edjusted http://www.betteroffed.com/?p=477

From the Voice Project, a wonderful project trying to support the peace movement in Uganda. Artists spread the word by covering music by another artist. There’re some fantastic videos on their web site. Here’s another great cover by Priscilla Ahn.

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percentage change in the average amount of food a person will consume when eating with one other person: +35
percentage change with four or seven others, respectively: +75, +96

from harper’s magazine, october 2007

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Share This ]]> http://www.betteroffed.com/2007/07/23/protect-our-children-from-weather/feed/ 0 one more reason to go on that diet… http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/if-youre-overweight-the-terrorists-win/ http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/if-youre-overweight-the-terrorists-win/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:27:24 +0000 edjusted http://www.betteroffed.com/?p=142 estimated number of gallons of extra gasoline burned each year because americans are overweight: 938,000,000
from the harper’s index, november 2006

Share This ]]> http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/if-youre-overweight-the-terrorists-win/feed/ 0 articles i stopped reading… http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/articles-i-stopped-reading/ http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/articles-i-stopped-reading/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:54:23 +0000 edjusted http://www.betteroffed.com/?p=141 …the bush administration cut anti-terrorism funding to new york by forty percent this year. the reason: the department of homeland security concluded that the city has no national icons or monuments that terrorists would want to attack…

Share This ]]> http://www.betteroffed.com/2006/12/22/articles-i-stopped-reading/feed/ 0 Michael Brown is an utter shithead http://www.betteroffed.com/2005/11/05/michael-brown-is-an-utter-shithead/ http://www.betteroffed.com/2005/11/05/michael-brown-is-an-utter-shithead/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:32:54 +0000 edjusted http://www.betteroffed.com/?p=120 Nothing more needs to be said.

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i want his job!

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This is from a series of spray paintings done on the Palestinian side of the Israeli “separation wall.” More background here.

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