If you haven’t seen this film yet, you should. It puts the third concept touched on in Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food (“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) into sharp focus. You will change your life if you watch it, and even if you don’t, you’ll still think about it.
Last week, the Census Bureau released a report on poverty that found that the number of Americans living in poverty has risen to 15.1 percent, the highest it has been since 1983:
About 46.2 million people, or nearly one in six, were in poverty in 2010, compared with 43.6 million, or 14.3 percent, in 2009.
The statistics, contained in the report, titled “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage: 2010,” cover 2010, when U.S. unemployment averaged 9.6 percent, up from 9.3 percent the previous year.
Highlights:
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
