1.17.2004
"Don't Stop Til You Get to Figueroa"
I don't know what's weirder, the fact that Michael Jackson invited everyone to his house for a post-arraignment party or the fact that invitations to that party are already available for purchase.
Whoppers in bowl form? Dr. Atkins [R.I.P.] is on fire! Oddly enough, last year we taught an edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle with an afterword penned by Atkins. In it, he related Sinclair's wrenching descriptions of pre-F.D.A. meat handling and manufacturing practices to the merits of no-carb, high-protein diets. Atkins, like many modern-day readers who fix on the meaty parts, missed Sinclair's original intention. He didn't really care about the food. Rather, Sinclair hoped his book and its descriptions of the sad conditions of the working class would inspire readers to take up arms against capitalism.
Whoppers in bowl form? Dr. Atkins [R.I.P.] is on fire! Oddly enough, last year we taught an edition of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle with an afterword penned by Atkins. In it, he related Sinclair's wrenching descriptions of pre-F.D.A. meat handling and manufacturing practices to the merits of no-carb, high-protein diets. Atkins, like many modern-day readers who fix on the meaty parts, missed Sinclair's original intention. He didn't really care about the food. Rather, Sinclair hoped his book and its descriptions of the sad conditions of the working class would inspire readers to take up arms against capitalism.
