Two of your blog’s recurring themes from the past few weeks merged in this article published in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago.  Apparently the Defense Department estimates that 71 percent of American young people, aged 17-24, would not qualify for military service if they tried to enlist.  The most important reasons, as described in the article, are excessive body weight and tattoos.

I read so many journalistic pieces that echo the themes on your blog that I could make it my part-time job just sending you interesting tangential links :-)  Nevertheless the mainstream press goes out of its way to avoid linking these phenomena, drawing the obvious conclusions, and then blazing a path to a better world. I have to turn to your blog for that synthesis.  Keep fighting the good fight.