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US troops are losing battle of the bulge

As American troops prepare for war in Iraq a report is about to reveal that more than half of them are overweight.

A panel of nine medical experts commissioned by the Pentagon is expected to say that 53.9 per cent of US military personnel over the age of 20 would be classified as too fat to fight under federal obesity standards.

A fifth of those aged under 20 would also fail the fat test, The Times has learnt. Iraq may not have such sophisticated weapons, but its soldiers at least fit their uniforms better.

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A successful method used to recruit teenagers is to allow fast-food chains such as McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken to operate restaurants on bases. Mess food is no longer obligatory.

[Via TBOGG]

Maybe these guys can provide some fitness tips.

I was just walking by the High School of Fashion Industries on West 24th Street and saw a small demonstration — about 15 or 20 students and 5-10 teachers — protesting war against Iraq and the provision of students’ private contact information to military recruiters. The chant I heard: “”http://bloggy.com/mt/archives/000366.html">No Child Left Behind</a> is the new draft!"

FYI: Bush cut the latest budget’s education funding below the previous year’s funding.

Why do so many gay men, and scary right wing people, link to Andrew Sullivan? A number of the scariest religious posters to Jim’s site link to him on their blogs. I also see gay men who otherwise don’t seem delusional putting links on their pages to him. Ugh.

This is a man that writes a column for the Washington Times, owned by Revered Sun Myung Moon. He shills for the pharmaceutical industry while having them sponsor his web site. He, a gay Catholic ex-pat from Britain, seems to consider everyone who doesn’t support Bush a traitor. He also has rather shoddy analytical skills when it comes to America’s “enemies”. He uses “Islamofascists” — a horrid neologism — to refer both to Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, even though the latter is a secular dictator. I suspect Mr. Sullivan can’t tell his Arabs apart.

A few useful sites for people as they work on removing Mr. Sullivan from their web sites and their lives:

Smarter Andrew Sullivan

SullyWatch

Eschaton

David E’s Fablog

TBOGG

There. That’s the last time I ever intend to mention him.

The fashion at my gym has reached a new low. Today I actually saw someone wearing a patterned silk vest, with no shirt underneath, with his gym shorts.

The latest newsletter from Betty Bowers is out!

Some favorites:

Knowledge is not something our current President is fond of — but he is fair about it, as he doesn’t want the rest of us to have much of it either. As you probably know, President Bush has stood firm in his resolve to keep all potentially embarrassing information regarding 9/11 a secret. To ensure that the President is never hurt politically by the death of all those people in New York, he has appointed Henry Kissinger to chair any prying. With Mr. Kissinger’s pedigree of nefarious skullduggery (such as overthrowing a democratic government in Chile that had a pesky habit of voting for people who were simply not our sort), Henry will go into the job with no naïve notions about the American people needing to know facts that might deflate their blind support of their president. Glory! For if there is one thing this administration would like more than strip mining Yellowstone, it is to keep secrets. Indeed, just last week, Mr. Ashcroft’s office asked a court to seal all the records to a lawsuit involving poison in vaccinations, lest the litigation-crazy parents of dead children use the information to sue pharmaceutical companies. After all the money those wonderful companies gave the GOP, it was the least that the President could do. After all, dead children don’t vote — even in Florida!

Remember children, pregnancy and disease are caused by knowledge.

Betty presents religion in the news, also known as You make Jesus vomit.

One of our works by Tracey is up at her show at The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. I can’t find an image of our work — probably too “explicit”, but I found an interview and some images.

This should be great tonight, but I also expect it to be a zoo. Who puts a big group show with lots of sexy people on the 10th floor of a building?!

I’m giving you the whole press release, since I can’t find a link that has all of the information.

John Connelly Presents:
K48-3: Teenage Rebel — The Bedroom Show
Curated by Scott Hug

526 W 26th Street, Suite 1023
New York, NY 10001

Exhibit Dates: December 3, 2002 – January 19, 2003
Opening: Tues, December 3, 6 – 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11am – 6pm

“Teenage art is not an attempt to reclaim youth
after it has passed, but an effort to expose the
dishonesty of the domesticated adult experience,
which is best served by reviving the emotional and
psychological convictions of teenage-hood.”
â?? Excerpt from Rachel Howe’s Teenage Art Manifesto

K48 is proud to present their first gallery
installation, coinciding with the release of their
third issue, Teenage Rebel.

The Bedroom Show brings together over 50 artists,
fashion designers, musicians, and graphic designers
into the realm of Hug’s ultimate teenage hangout.
Some of the work in the show actually belongs to
Hug: “These are my friends, this is what inspires
me”.

Scott Hug created K48 as his thesis project for the
Graduate Design Department at Pratt Institute.
Launched in December of 2000, K48, named after a
generic form of aspirin, continues Hug’s interests
into information flux, allowing him to express
himself through the popular form of a magazine.
Collaborating with other artists, writers and
musicians, Scott designs, edits, and curates each
issue giving a personal touch to a medium, which in
today’s corporate mediascape, only wants to sell you
something.

“Magazines are dead,” claims Hug. “K48 is like my
traveling exhibit. I want to get art into the hands
of teenagers across America”.

The bedroom will feature customized wall paper by
Eli Sudbrack, a complete entertainment system
featuring The Kid America TV Show, Robert Melee’s
High School Wrestling and video games; music; and a
wall collage by the Providence, RI, collective
Dearraindrop. Artists include Lily van der Stokker,
Lucky Debellevue, Jesse Bransford, Sam Gordon, Tyson
Reeder, Ryan McGinley, Slava Mogutin, Michael Meads,
Lucien Samaha, Tracy Nakayama, Mike Pare, Debbie
Attias, David West, Keila Lopez, Amy Steiner,
Timothy Dowling, Aida Ruilova, Emily Sundblad and
many others.

The Bedroom Show is an interactive experience. Scott
is inviting people to hangout with him, play some
Atari, watch some videos or just read K48.

For more gallery information, contact:

John Connelly Presents
526 W 26th Street, Suite 1023
New York, NY 10001
T: 212-337-9563
F: 212-337-9613
C: 917-596-9341
E: jcpresents@cheapcream.com

For more information on K48 Magazine, contact:

Scott Hug
K48 Enterprises, Inc.
T: 718-302-9630
C: 917-225-4094
E: hugscott@hotmail.com
www.k48rules.com

Benjamin Tischer
K48 Enterprises, Inc.
T: 212-233-1673
E: ballball@mindspring.com

K48 is available in New York City at: St. Mark’s
Book Store, Other Music, Mondo Kim’s, Dia Center for
the Arts, Printed Matter, alife, New Museum, MOMA
Design Store, See Hear, Isa and many other fine
locations.

Run, do not walk, to Winterreise at John Jay. I’m too tired from fixing Jim’s computer to post more right now, but it was one of the best evenings of singing/dance/Gesamtkunstwerk I have ever seen, featuring Schubert’s Winterreise, Trisha Brown’s choreography, Jennifer Tipton’s lighting, Pedja Muzijevic’s accompaniment, and the singing (and dancing!) talents of Simon Keenlyside:

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Read James’s report too.

Anti-war protesters block Whitehall