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Bodies

Why Mayor Bloomberg’s Ban on Big Soda is Stupid

Post author By Golda Poretsky, HHC
Post date Monday, June 4th, 2012
9 Comments on Why Mayor Bloomberg’s Ban on Big Soda is Stupid

Last Thursday, I appeared on Jane Velez-Mitchell’s show on HLN to talk about the public policy hullabaloo of the moment. My sleepy little hometown of NYC made the news when our Mayor for life, Michael Bloomberg, had another brilliant idea for the public shaming of fat people public health – outlawing the sale of sodas in excess […]

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Politics

Civil Vandalism: A Manifesto

Post author By Lizy Yagoda
Post date Thursday, March 24th, 2011
21 Comments on Civil Vandalism: A Manifesto

There are many ways in which I could be a better person. I could drop my laundry quarters into the coffee cups of the panhandlers outside my office. I could work to suppress my nervous reaction to sad or uncomfortable news, which is to giggle uncontrollably.