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“Do you know about Slash?” Are you kidding me? Lord, I am old.

Adipose tissue suffocation is just one (albeit rare) risk of maternal obesity. The most common is Preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder that often results in death. But studies of women who were obese before pregnancy, or gained too much weight during pregnancy, reveal a whole grab-bag of fetal development horrors…

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(Photo: Streetside in Grand Forks, ND)

Ha Ha. Great irony that Greif may be tangentially included in two people finding each other and getting married… you know, that institution that Greif says is “inevitably intolerable to any post-’60s individual who counts the accumulation of strong experience and passionate feeling as the sine qua non of meaningful existence” and is “lye poured upon the petri dish of the new relations of erotic sociality.” Here’s to the two crazy kids who meet through this ad, and end up despisiing each other. Then again, that bullshit ad is too rich to not be a plant of some kind.

The above from the spectacular London Review of Book personals section.

Looks like SOMEBODY on the Ohio State Jim Tressel Sweater Love Squad got promoted from S to T!

This is why you don;t buy a white car in North Dakota. During the winter you can’t see it and in the Autumn, when beet and potato trucks muddy every road, you get this “two tone” look.

 Left: Convicted asshole and dog fighter, Michael Vick

Right: Un-convicted asshole and dog humiliating Grand Forks Tea Part attendee

Town House Toppers® with raised edges for easier topping.

And yes, those are all me.

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Oh, yes, I was at THAT game.