That contraption would topple over or bottom out on the small threshold bumps, kerb ramps, and angled pathways that I encounter every day. Or if you leaned over more than a tiny bit. And you'd topple over while strapped in, with not a lot of opportunity to modify your fall - so it's an arm, shoulder and head injury waiting to happen.

It looks pretty enough on artificial completely-flat surfaces (though where's the pressure? It looks like it's concentrated on a much smaller area than in a properly-fitted cushioned wheelchair), but it would be completely impractical in most people's real lives.

"Sexist"? You might have missed the bit about these badges being feminist critique, not uncritical advocacy of dieting and domestic confinement. Yaeger's work has been featured in magazines like Ms., Bitch, and Lilith.

If you count a compulsive Neatorama reader and sometime linker and commenter, Hoyden About Town is up under Best Midsize Blog. The category is pretty thoroughly freeped right now, but ah well.

So people who've had insulin-dependent diabetes from childhood, people with familial high blood pressure or hypercholesterolaemia who are already doing as much as they can to control it, weightlifters and bodybuilders, all these people "deserve" increased health insurance premiums?

With the "progress" definitions, it sounds like the way to go, pragmatically, would be to push your cholesterol and blood sugar and weight as high as possible for the initial assessment. Then just demonstrate that you've "made progress" in reverting towards the mean. Voila.

Or, y'know, just bring in universal health insurance, and consign this sort of red-tape disaster area to the bureaucratic dustbin where it belongs. You can guess who is winning in this game, and it isn't employers or employees or healthcare workers.

Okinawans? I was thinking of India and China, which will of course dramatically dominate any "average" figure.

There's an absolute clanger of a question in there, and it's the one I got "wrong":

"How much longer will the average Asian woman live than the average African-American man?"

Uh, yeah. I interpreted "Asian woman" to mean "Woman who lives in Asia". The quiz writers meant it as "Woman of Asian descent who lives in America".

The only way Penistone can be funnier is to make it a street, and intersect it with Cockman Road. I live not far from here.

Grey? I'm reading that nipple as brown.

I'm guessing Japan has no disability accessibility legislation.

K!P, from the introduction to his book:

"I am really, really frustrated with the poor attitudes that seem to have swept over my peer group. Frustrated with hearing “I don’t have” rather than “Let’s see what I can do with what I do have.” So, I have decided to demonstrate that it doesn't have to be that way."

and

"my story is a rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch"

He has published a book, and is now touting for speaking engagements.

His speaking-engagements page includes sidebar soundbites like

"Why he is prepared to stand by his proclamation that opportunity exists for everyone."

and

"Why the book Nickel and Dimed was flawed from the beginning."

and

"Why raising the minimum wage does not stimulate the economy of the lower class."

and

"Why he succeeded, while many people make the decision to steer clear of the opportunities in front of them."

How is that about proving something quietly to himself?

So - young educated English-speaking able-bodied white male citizen with no mental illness, no kids to look after, no debt, and a credit card in his back pocket manages to keep his head above water for a few months, with the help of a whole lot of government and/or charity assistance?

And then bails out when somebody gets sick, and calls himself a "success"?

And now he knows all about what it's like to actually be poor, with no escape hatch, none of his demographic advantages, carer responsibilities, and thousands of dollars worth of medical bills?

Now he turns around and claims that anyone could do it, and that they're all just making excuses?

I hope he is pumping a good proportion of his book earnings back into the homeless shelter and food programmes that he took up unnecessarily.

I've been searching on this subject for years now, and have never once found a medically verified case report of a healthy man (or an unhealthy one, for that matter) exclusively nourishing an infant. If anyone has found one, do please post it.