You’re right, people do come in all shapes and sizes. And then we do some math, and we come up with an average height and weight, which probably excludes activities like training for triathalons, because that’s not the average amount of activity for an average individual.

Oh and Radley, on the food deserts that data’s incomplete. “More shops”. Great, and what floor area? What average price for vegetables and fresh foods? What are the opening hours like and what are the working hours of the people in the area?

Etc.

Your claim isn’t sustainable on the raw numbers of shops alone.

This entire mess, from the accident that began it to the present day, has been so egregious that the big boys like Radley have been content to let the thing speak for itself. Which it does — and it’s not saying anything good.

Yeah it’s bad here in FL. If you get arrested you’ve got long term financial liabilities. Many people here are sentenced to some sort of “counseling” like anti-theft, anti-violence, alcohol and drug abuse, etc. They have to pay for that. This crap is especially prevalent in plea bargain cases where sometimes innocent people get scared of facing prison time, don’t want to risk their freedom at trial, so they plead something like no lo contendere or whatever and get stuck. Then there are the fees for court costs, supervision/probation, public defender, and all kinds of other crap.

Police states need money. They’re very creative in how they get it.

@20 – Only if you’re closing the program down. Which is what you’re after, ending state education and healthcare and so on entirely. Can’t have the people with most of the wealth pay that percentage of tax, after all!

Actually, excepting Greece, the sickest country in the EU is the UK. Because of slash and burn RIGHT out of your playbook.

You shouldn’t trust anything that guy says!

Piss and moan about it all you want, if you’re 6′ 2″ tall and weigh over 232 pounds, you’re clinically obese.

Good grief. Those numbers are for a very average person. In case you didn’t notice, people come in all shapes and sizes.

15 years ago we used to laugh at those numbers (which were put on the bulletin board for the purpose of laughing at). I was personally 6’1″ 220-235 with a 33″ waist when I was doing triathlons.

Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments

I like to bring this up when talking to a Brit about how great their government is. I wish my wife had such a short memory.

What Xenocles said. Warren Sapp was 6-2, 300+ pounds when he played in the NFL. He also a 40 in 4.7. If you called him obese to his face, he could run you down, beat your ass, eat a donut and still not be winded.

City Council President Jack Young voted against this settlement and others, saying he is “tired of the Police Department bleeding money.”

Well, Jack, why don’t you find out why your police department roughs up old ladies? Well, that would just be too much work.

Jack is obviously afraid to take on the police union who helped fund his last election campaign.

Arnold was 6’2″ and about 235 when he was winning Mr. Olympia 7 times. He was juicing moderately at the time, but the point remains that simple height-weight ratios miss a lot when diagnosing.

In order to genereate $100k/yr, all the city/state/king has to do is set aside $5M in a 2% interest-bearing account. The simple answer is, for every single retiree in the system, there needs to be ~$5M on hand.

I assume that we all know that this nearly impossible and, so, an intelligent (which this case clearly demonstrates is not the same thing as “educated”) person should probably see numbers like that and say “How can you possibly afford that?”

Let her do this as a class project. Maybe she can learn something. Hopefully one of the students whose parents will have to work into their 60s, still scraping out their own meager existence, to pay for the 15 years Ms. List is on the dole points this out to her.

Sturm’s research is interesting, but his method doesn’t count income, household size, or parental work. Two families can live in the same neighborhood, but one family may have the resources to travel further for quality food, while another family may not.

Damn fucking straight. Juries still have the last word. Fuck the police.

The teacher might be disappointed, but the reality is that she had unreasonable expectations, and that her expectations cannot be fulfilled without more serious impacts on others. If I promise my kids a trip to Disney land and then lose my job, they are going to have to live with disappointment so that they can be fed and clothed.

This is like black poverty: yes, poor black families can make better choices, but to pretend that they don’t also suffer from all sorts of other barriers is just not supported by facts.