Weight-Loss Secrets I Learned from Japanese Women

The so-called experts scoff at desperate American women in search of a "magic weight loss pill," or some other simple solution to their weight problems.  But it's the experts who may be the fools and gullible ones. I spent a year in Japan, which gave me a new perspective on food.  How many experts and nutritionists in the United States tell overweight American women that there is no secret, no magic to weight loss. With a sarcastic sneer, that generally say something like:  "all you have to do is stop stuffing yourself, substitute lettuce salad for pepperoni pizza and take up jogging."  That is not really sound advice because most overweight women have such strong food cravings, that those dietary changes are not do-able.  Besides, substituting lettuce for pizza is not the real reason I couldn't find a dress size 12, and barely any size 10s in Japanese department stores, stocked with size 0's through 6's.  Do Japanese women have that much more willpower than we do?  Of course not.

Where was Mrs. Sandusky While Husband Molesting Young Boys at Couple's Home?

Accused Child Molester Jerry Sandusky & Wife

Where was Mrs. Sandusky for the last fifteen years, while  her husband molested young boys in the basement of their State College, Pennsylvania, home?   I don't mean to be unfair.   After nearly three decades of marriage, I know all too well the pitfalls in  assuming that a wife (or vice versa) is clued into the kinds of shenanigans a husband is bent on keeping from her.

Why Penn State Officials Ignored Eyewitness Account of Sandusky's Rape of 10 Year Old Boy

I'm feeling nauseous.  There is a relevant piece of information that has been kept out of most media accounts of the unfolding Penn State scandal.  Without it, the refusal of university officials to report or even reprimand Jerry Sandusky for raping young boys between the ages of 7 and 12 is truly incomprehensible.  The missing fact is this.  The victims were black.  I had long thought  the nineteenth century notion that African-Americans were animals and their children mere possessions, with neither feelings, shame nor innocence had been swept away by the civil war.  But apparently I was wrong.