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The Fat Lady Is Still Warming Up
From Drudge : Zogby's polling yesterday had John McCain pulling into a one-point lead, 48-47, over Barack Obama. That result is an outlier, I suppose, but Obama has never been able to seal the deal with the voters and quite a few remain undecided, one in seven according to a recent AP poll. ...
The End of Fat?
tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com — How long until there's a drug that makes it easy for anyone to be thin? My question... is prompted by a a report in the Lancet from a team of Danish researchers who found that a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, was twice as effective as ... (more) The End of Fat?
The end of the war on fat?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com — John Tierney asks how long it will be until we have a drug that can make everyone... thin.  I wonder whether, if we got one, everyone would still want to be thin.  The obsession with thinness is a wealth marker.  Just as it only became ... (more) The end of the war on fat?
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On the Couch
The Mahablog — Nate Silver’s data say that if the election were today, the electoral college vote would be something like 350 to 188 in favor of Obama. Still, Dems faint in terror at the least discouraging news; the wingnut faithful (although not the GOP party itself) are only now telling themselves that McCain might lose. Nah, he couldn’t. Rush Limbaugh’s gut is telling him McCain can win (or is it gas?) and John H of Power Tools tells us, From Drudge: Zogby’s polling yesterday had John McCain pulling into a ...

Barack Obama Cannot Close
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?” asks Thomas Sowell, likening the consequences of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Obama-Pelosi-Reid “tax trifecta from hell!” to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: You must read more to get the essence. John McCain is a Closer. Obama has never been able to close his own back door. Someone who has had a good gut reaction to how elections will go had his ...

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