9-8-1-0-Fat
Yesterday’s P-I front page featured more of UW nutrition professor Adam Drewnowski’s work on finding out why obesity correlates with poverty in America. This time out, he broke down Seattle by ZIP code, and what do you know — if you live in a higher-income ZIP code, you’re less likely to be fat that if you live in a lower-income ZIP code.
Honestly, though, it’s really just more of the same from Drewnowski, who is an international authority on obesity and poverty. Really, this article serves one purpose — to let the P-I article commenters bloviate.
My personal favorite:
Posted by Danube Logus at 9/12/07 2:20 a.m.
Yes - another “stupid study” from an under-achieving, overweight, public university that imposes it’s monopolistic influences on our state government. We have only ONE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY in the immediate Puget Sound region. Our students are starving for more choices in local secondary education.
We do NOT need another pedantic study from U-dumb researchers - we need more public universities in Puget Sound to act as competition to U-dumb. This would provide more choices for our students seeking public education. Also, the competition from other local public universities would force U-dumb to become a better school.
And maybe, U-dumb researchers would spend their time and our tax money on worthwhile projects instead of embarrassing themselves with exercises in nonsense.
I don’t even know where to begin. I just know that if anyone is in his neighborhood, they should ask him which taxes we should raise to pay for these new “secondary education” “public universities” he’s clamoring for. And then, GET OFF HIS LAWN!
I read P-I comments because I enjoy reading the logical trainwrecks that always show up on there. They remind me that we have smart, funny readers commenting on our posts. Most of the time.
The PI comments are interesting to read because they get so many republicans and libretarians commenting. Their comments are really a good mix of political viewpoints. Of course, for that very reason, they usually degenerate into right vs. left vs. independant flamewars.
But still, it’s sometimes refreshing to get a viewpoint other than the lefty urban liberals on SLOG, Seattlest, Metroblogging Seattle, etc., etc. :).
True, the P-I draws a lot of righty conservative-libertarian commenters, but I don’t think that’s bad. The liberals in this town tend to forget that nearly 30% of Seattle’s voters went with Dubya in 2004.
What Slog and the P-I both have a lot of is reality-challenged commenters. And they’re what make it funny. Although lately it’s been funny-sad more than funny-haha.
Is the irony of using poor punctuation and grammar while criticizing a university even worth mentioning?