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Posted by A.J. Mahari on December 14, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Okay, I am not obsessed with weight. This blog just had to happen because I cannot believe that "experts" in the U.S. have nothing better to do than pick on Santa Claus for being too fat. Give me a friggin’ break, give us all a friggin’ break will ya? Firstly, who the heck really sees [...]
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on December 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Okay, we as a society have lost our minds now. That’s it, it has happened. Jennifer Love Hewitt has been criticized as being "fat". Get out of here. What does that truly make the rest of us then? Don’t answer that! What is this world coming too? Where has common sense gone? What is western [...]
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on November 28, 2007 · Leave a Comment
There is, as most of us well know, this predominant and predictable culturally-sanctioned prejudice against those of us who are fat. Please do not be offended if you are, like I am, fat, by my use of the word fat. I just have a problem with being referred to as overweight because no one can [...]
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment
I have been noticing something is different with Oprah this year. She looks more tired than usual. And, while I watch the show fairly regularly – I record it and then watch it when I don’t feel like doing anything else – it wasn’t until I saw a show last week with Nate Berkus that [...]
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