Friday, June 16, 2017

Friday roundup

Were you wondering about Qatar? Or about NATO?
 
Richest country in the world...
In Iola, community workers talk of tragedies that could have easily been prevented.
Holly Jerome, a director at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, spoke about a patient who lost a leg to diabetes and a disabled drug addict who couldn't go back to work because his insurance wouldn't cover a nonaddictive pain medication. Angela Henry, project director of the community organization Safe Base, told of a 13-year-old girl who lost part of her jaw when her parents couldn’t pay to finish a dental operation, and the packing pellets a dentist put in her tooth rotted.
Money and whiteness buys man relative impunity even in the rare case where he's prosecuted; woman's life is upended.
 
Eat plants.

Two perspectives (Roxane Gay's, indirectly, and Lindy West's, via the Goop festival) on fatness.

Kids need limits.

How you handle and discourage unwanted gifts depends on the relationship.

Karma can be a beautiful thing.

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