"Outrage at Grazia magazine after an intern sent out regularly to buy skinny lattes for the beauty desk announced at the end of her stint on the mag that she had in fact been buying them all full-fat ones." [MediaMonkey]

The United States. Home to levels of fat-assery unprecedented in human history. It's a trend that doesn't seem to be waning anytime soon. In fact, a new movement is afoot to counter the fat-haters called "fat acceptance."

Movies get directors, and they also get Matthew McConaughey. The Office actors just got rich, and fat people just got validated, in glorious reality show form.

Celeb-economist and Holbert C. Harris Chair of economics at George Mason Tyler Cowen was accused by a commenter at his blog of harboring a too-rosy view of America's future. So he listed each and every one of his "anti-American attitudes." As he is an academic who writes for the New York Times, he has many. Well, six. Some of them obvious—too many people are in prison!—and some a little more brow-raising: "America faces a massive current and future problem resulting from the apparent uneducability of a large chunk of its citizens." Now let's all list our anti-American attitudes! Here's mine: you're all too fat.

A few weeks ago, we would've titled this post "Why There Are No Fat People At Oberlin," but a new day has dawned. Anyway! A study came out the other day about fat kids, and guess what? They're less likely to go to college. Not only that, but if they're at a school surrounded by thin kids, they're even less likely to go to college!

We feel like this article on an obese chihuahua might, perhaps, be trying to tell us something about its owner, Pamela Arconti, an executive assistant on Wall Street. (Her dog, Lola, weighed 16.2 pounds when the normal weight for chihuahuas is four to six pounds.) There are no photos of the owner, so we just have to go by the clues laid out for us in the article: