Archive for July 8th, 2007

Heh. Americans are fat.

Straits Times ran an article about how fat is perceived as beauty in Mauritania.
“Other cultures prize corpulent women. But Mauritania may be unique in the lengths it has gone to achieve its vision of female beauty. For decades, the Mauritanian version of a Western teenager’s crash diet was a crash feeding programme, devised to create [...]

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A Black President? A Woman President?

MSNBC had an article analyzing poll results regarding whether America was ready to elect either a female or black president.
Do people honestly believe that Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is going to be sitting in the Whitehouse come 2009? Get real.
America is still the country where a majority voted for George W. Bush in the [...]

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