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By Mark Shiffman 27 June 2009 6 Comments

I’ve been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I’m almost starting to believe it myself. So here’s great news. Obama’s much-publicized concern about our obesity problem has spawned suggestions, yes even on national news, that we should require things like, you know, sidewalks in neighborhoods, and maybe even find ways to encourage having things to walk to nearby, like grocery stores. This will save enough of the money we spend on treating obese people to make socialized medicine affordable. I don’t know whether the Presidential Commission on Fighting Obesity by Zoning Localism will cost enough to cancel out those savings; but since I’ve also been accused of supporting big government regulation and social engineering, I guess I must be in favor of this new inititiative to make us a slimmer nation.

Now I’m going to leave this cyber-cafe and drive 8 blocks back to the inaccessible-by-foot one-block cul-de-sac where I’m spending my summer. I exhort you all, in the Marxist spirit I am said to be possessed by, to eat more corn-oil fried corn-syrup products so we can continue to precipitate the obesity crisis that will lead inexorably to the Great Localist Revolution.

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Nathan P. Origer said:

I’ve been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I’m almost starting to believe it myself.

This explains so much about our spring 2003 seminar!

# 2 July 2009 at 11:01 pm

Russell Arben Fox said:

I’ve been accused (at least by association) by so many pomocon partisans of being pro-Obama, I’m almost starting to believe it myself.

Clearly, Mark, there are far worse things to believe than that. (Have a good holiday!)

# 3 July 2009 at 7:37 am

HappyAcres said:

J’accuse.
Is this a serious post, or insider irony?

# 3 July 2009 at 7:56 am

D.W. Sabin said:

Might I suggest this inducement to exercise:

A Marathon…. ending in Washington D.C. whereupon not just the winner, but every blessed wonderful person participating, even those disadvantaged folks who might have dropped out in Hagerstown or Richmond can catapult flaming boxes of dropped chad ballots at a lineup of Congress of their choice. We run out of Congresspipples, well…there are two other branches and the Executive, they’ve got a whole big office building next door and a rilly big building across the Potomac under their purview.

Sidewalks….ehhh….is that what was meant by “Change”?

# 3 July 2009 at 11:46 am