In Which I (Sort Of) Disagree With the New York Times, Part Two

How do ya like the new look? We don’t have everything in place yet, but I was determined to get the new banner, title and colors up and running. As I chip away at this in the next couple of weeks you’ll see new tabs appear on the menu bar at the top of the page. At some point I had decided to split off my hospitality posts into a separate website, “Intentional Hospitality,” and now I’m re-merging them into this material and re-naming the whole thing. Got that?

Anyway, let’s get the to actual subject of this post, another idea from that infamous New York Times article. I’m zeroing in on one phrase, but let me give the entire sentence for context:

Whatever the combination of factors at work, something about the environment is making many people as fat as their genetic makeup permits.

Here’s the phrase: “as fat as their genetic makeup permits.”

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