Rachel has a great post up about making donations to help Haiti, with a list of reputable charities. I hear that Doctors Without Borders is doing especially good work on the ground; right now they are working on setting up an inflatable hospital. But there are also stories out there of people posing as charities [...]

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I know you’ve probably already heard about this, but five women were shot and killed during a robbery gone awry at a Chicago Lane Bryant. “The employees of Charming Shoppes and Lane Bryant are deeply saddened by the loss of life resulting from this horrific event,” the statement said. “We grieve for the innocent victims [...]

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This game is so insane that I have no idea what to say about it. The object is to fling, like, hot dogs at Paris Hilton. She eats them and gets fatter and fatter; the fatter she gets, the higher your score. At the end, you can give her “sympathy liposuction” and watch her deflate. [...]

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Several readers passed along this article, the moral of which is simple: don’t compare yourself to the contestants on The Biggest Loser. Kai Hibbard, 29, from Eagle River, Alaska, lost 118 pounds last season. She recently wrote on a blog that in the two weeks before the finale she severely dehydrated herself using asparagus (a [...]

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A lovely little essay to start off your day. About how the way we see ourselves can be distorted, and how it can be reclaimed. I was running unaware—running after Patrick Bush because it was the summer after 5th grade and running was fun and fast. I was running through the grass, near the fence, [...]

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Everyone is looking for Joy Nash after her awesome Fat Rant, and some of them are finding the other Joy Nash, who has published what she calls a “Not Fat Rant”: “And really, she doesn’t look that fat to me. If I passed her in the street, I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about her [...]

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