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This revolting Donna Simpson person weighs 602 pounds, and is trying to get to 1,000 pounds. Why? She makes her money with a website in which pervs (like her kinky boyfriend) pay to watch her shove food in her mouth and jiggle around. “I love eating and people love watching me eat,” she says. “It…

Journalist Sandro Magister: In June 1991 John Paul II returned to his native Poland for the fourth time. The Wall had fallen, the soviet empire was in pieces. But the pope refused to celebrate. On the contrary, he had never before shown such angry with his compatriots. He gave a number of impromptu speeches, and…

I basically agree with Ross Douthat that one problem with American life, especially American political life, is that in this country, we don’t know how to handle tragedy. We like our narratives simple and clear. Writes Ross: But the idea that many debacles flow from choices made by decent, well-intentioned human beings is more difficult…

In a brief about the religion of capitalism, David Rieff points us to this parable from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s longtime investment partner, who imagines Basicland, a spendthrift nation that ignored the wisdom of self-discipline and thus could not arrest the causes of its own decline.
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