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I’ve been gaining weight recently - and if you know me, you realize that’s probably a good thing. I couldn’t figure it out, because I never exercise or diet, and I’m eating roughly the same food. However, here is what I postulate.

Three square meals per day will kill you. Yes, that’s right.

I can say from experience that when you’re a slacker and can eat whenever you want, you eat when your body gets hungry. Makes sense, right? Also, you only eat up to the point where your body is satiated.

Now, stick the body in an 8-5 job. You’re forced to eat breakfast at 7, lunch at 12, dinner at 6. Because you no longer eat when your body says you need to, but rather when your job says you can, you gorge yourself three times a day in order to make it to the next meal without starving. You take in more energy than you expend pushing pencils, and you gain weight.

I suppose the solution is to snack during the day, assuming you don’t work near life-threatening chemicals like hulk.

OHHHHHHH THEY DID NOT! So there’s this new movie coming out entitled “The Corporation,” and from the trailer it seems like it’s all about how the corporation is an evil thing because it is driven by profit and not, I suppose, some concern for the greater good of humanity. If you’ve read Atlas Shrugged I would just ask you to refer to D’Anconio’s argument on the morality of money. Or John Gault’s lengthy speech. For those of you who haven’t, allow me to try to convey my problems with the anti-corporation view of the world.

First of all, idealists are offended by the idea that profit is a motive for anyone. “How dare they. Those immoral bastards,” they say. And on the surface, sure, it’s all sorts of “immoral,” if you define morality in the terms of helping out other people. However, if you define morality as instead giving those people the means to help themselves, then the corporation is very moral. I had an argument with someone the other night in which I argued that everything should be privatized, and he pointed out that some regulation was necessary. Fine. But only a minimum, to say you can’t cook your books and to say you can’t pollute that badly. Beyond that the corporation is self-regulating. Why? Continue Reading »