1. Charles Shaw -- not the winemaker, but the Newtopia Magazine editor -- has been convicted and now incarcerated for possession of a small amount of pot and extacy. For this trifle he'll be in jail for a year (and he was lucky). I'm not a regular reader of the magazine, but Shaw has been an active member of the blogging community in Chicago; if I'm not mistaken, he was one of the loudest voices in town during the whole flashmob phenomenon.
2. Paul Krugman's op-ed on obesity is worth a read, despite the fact that he doesn't really propose a policy solution; the real dragon here (and I think he needs a bigger forum to slay it) is the wrongheaded faith that markets always magically locate the best (or even the most efficient) outcome.
3. Meanwhile, this study on dieting (via ALDaily) would seem to bolster the case that obesity really is about getting what you want -- at least if you think higher self-esteem is the psychic biproduct of making the right choices. And for Krugman there's the question: how do you valuate self-esteem?
4. Finally, former IU basketball star Alan Henderson, who has a big enough intellect that he would have gone to medical school if he hadn't ended up with the Atlanta Hawks, was arrested the other day for having a loaded 9mm in his suitcase at JFK airport. He could get up to 15 years.
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