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The Thing About Eating That Makes Me Stand Up and Say Howdy
From Know That What You Eat You Are: The best food writing from Harper’s Magazine.
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Excerpt — October 10, 2017, 2:48 pm
From Know That What You Eat You Are: The best food writing from Harper’s Magazine.
Portion of money spent by Donald Trump’s reelection committee this year that has gone toward legal fees:
Male financial traders make more money when their testosterone levels are high.
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump meet at a former POW site, Jeff Sessions denies asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence, and the National Sheriff Association announces a new initiative to protect pets.
"Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed at least a hundred laws loosening gun restrictions since President Obama took office. Yet the National Rifle Association has continued to insist that government confiscation of privately owned firearms is nigh. The NRA’s alarmism helped maintain an active membership, but the strategy was risky: sooner or later, gun guys might have realized that they’d been had. Then came the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, followed swiftly by the nightmare the NRA had been promising for decades: a dedicated push at every level of government for new gun laws. The gun-rights movement was now that most insufferable of species: a hypochondriac taken suddenly, seriously ill."
© 2017 Harper’s Magazine Foundation. Cover: Illustration by John Ritter. Source photographs (details): © Kevork Djansezian/AP Photo; © Wally Santana/AP Photo
