Ah, the nifty 'Top-Whatever' press releases. "Unpaid placements masquerading as actual articles."
That's how they're described by the book :
It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News.
But we cannot look away. We must absorb them.
Ohio is off to a good start for the month of July 2009:
Jul 1, 2009 - Top 10 Worst States For Personal Freedom
Compiled by the Mercatus Center, a nonprofit public policy research center affiliated with George Mason University, using a wide swath of comparative data to determine personal freedoms, including alcohol and drug laws, asset-forfeiture rules, and education regulations.
- Maryland
- Illinois
- New York
- Rhode Island
- Ohio
- New Jersey
- Massachusetts
- Alabama
- Georgia
- South Carolina
Ohio has the 10th highest rate of adult obesity in the nation, at 28.6 percent and the 15th highest of overweight youths (ages 10-17) at 33.3 percent, according to a new report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009
State-by-State Adult Obesity Rankings
The Heftiest 10
- Mississippi (32.5%)
- Alabama (31.2%)
- West Virginia (31.1%)
- Tennessee (30.2%)
- South Carolina (29.7%)
- Oklahoma (29.5%)
- Kentucky (29.0%)
- Louisiana (28.9%)
- Michigan (28.8%)
- (tie) Arkansas (28.6%) and Ohio (28.6%)
Here's my plan to reduce obesity.
And while we're at it, may as well do something for Mother Earth. Vegetarianism: The most effective tool against global warming.
A for oppression just see WalterAnthony's post re: new traffic laws.
posted by holland on Jul 02, 2009 at 10:43:25 pm #