THE PROBLEM

I've recently found myself checking the following websites an unhealthy amount.

THE IDEA

Every time you open a new tab to check out one of the following websites, stop. Get up from your computer and do the exercise associated with the site you were going to visit. After you complete the exercise, reward yourself by going to the website.

IN ESSENCE

Burn some fat, not yo' brain.

Actually not a bad concept. I might even try it, but I do have to say that it's a damn good thing I don't use tumblr, because I can't do push-ups for shit.

Chris Farris, co-chair of Gays & Lesbians Opposing Violence, got it right when he told the Blade last week, “There seems to be a reluctance within the [the U.S. Attorney’s office] to pursue assault prosecutions involving the LGBT community because of a sense that they may have difficulty with juries in those cases,” Farris said.

In other words, black members of the jury would be reluctant to convict a black defendant in an anti-gay hate crime case. That’s an outrageous and offensive assumption for prosecutors to make. Prosecutors in this city need to stand up to criminals like Hannah and let juries decide their fate rather than cutting deals and caving to an outrageous gay-panic defense.

Many insurers consider a Caesarean-section pregnancy a pre-existing condition and refuse to cover women who have had the procedure. From a 2008 New York Times story about a Colorado woman who had Golden Rule Insurance:

She was turned down because she had given birth by Caesarean section. Having the operation once increases the odds that it will be performed again, and if she became pregnant and needed another Caesarean, Golden Rule did not want to pay for it. A letter from the company explained that if she had been sterilized after the Caesarean, or if she were over 40 and had given birth two or more years before applying, she might have qualified.