Skipping Towards Gomorrah
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
“—Saint Paul (Phil. 3.18) Because of the brief pleasure of the throat, lands and seas are ransacked.
—Saint Jerome As anyone who watches political chat shows can tell you, a lot of American virtuecrats have weight problems. I’m not the first, you know, terribly, terribly serious writer to point this out. In his groundbreaking work of political scholarship, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken opened America’s eyes to the vast waistland (har!) that is Rush Limbaugh, the conservative ...talk-radio host. Robert Bork, William J. Bennett, and Jerry Falwell don’t just resemble Limbaugh politically; all four men aren’t exactly skin and bones, with Falwell being the most Rubenesque of the bunch. That so many conservative scolds are overweight might explain why we don’t hear much from them about the sin of gluttony. Or perhaps the silence of the scolds on this issue has something to do with the fact that Republicans tend to be more obese than Democrats, as do born-again Christians, Southerners, and Bush supporters.MoreLess
—Saint Jerome As anyone who watches political chat shows can tell you, a lot of American virtuecrats have weight problems. I’m not the first, you know, terribly, terribly serious writer to point this out. In his groundbreaking work of political scholarship, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken opened America’s eyes to the vast waistland (har!) that is Rush Limbaugh, the conservative ...talk-radio host. Robert Bork, William J. Bennett, and Jerry Falwell don’t just resemble Limbaugh politically; all four men aren’t exactly skin and bones, with Falwell being the most Rubenesque of the bunch. That so many conservative scolds are overweight might explain why we don’t hear much from them about the sin of gluttony. Or perhaps the silence of the scolds on this issue has something to do with the fact that Republicans tend to be more obese than Democrats, as do born-again Christians, Southerners, and Bush supporters.MoreLess
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