NY Times Reports: Fat People’s Farts Cause Global Warming

These days few features of the American landscape are more exploited by the media than our penchant for porkiness. The so-called "obesity epidemic" serves as a terrific metaphor for lazy, bloviating French social critics, newspaper editors in need of a good headline, and now, environmentalists.

Gina Kolata covers a study today in the New York Times that links fatter Americans with extra fuel costs (fuel, farts, it's the same thing).

I personally find every American hamlet's decent into round-town a welcome development. Forced to shop throughout my adolescence in that embarrassingly isolated corner of any department store euphemistically called the "husky section," I dig that a new generation of pre-pubescent fat kids will mock their few skinny brethren for shopping in the "scrawny section."

At last, my long-held dream that "chunky Zionist chic" might become the new black is coming true. Eat, and fart, on America. Who needs glaciers anyway?

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Before joining Jewcy Media as President and Editor, Tahl Raz was a Senior Editor at Fortune Small Business. He is the co-author of the national bestseller, Never Eat Alone. He started his career at the Jerusalem Post as the youngest person in the newspaper's history to be published in the weekend magazine (the article was a profile of an Israeli radio sex therapist). After a stint as a feature writer and reporter for the Post, he has served as a feature writer for Inc. magazine, an on-air correspondent for the NPR-distributed radio show, "Beyond Computers," and contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, and others. He was named one of America's top 30 business journalists under the age of 30 by the trade publication TJFR. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Vassar College.

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