posner (weight) watch
In my own ingroup of 16 judges (11 active members of my court, 4 senior members, and 1 nominee, who will replace an active member who will be taking senior status), only 2 are overweight (12.5 percent), compared to a nationwide average of 66 percent. Among my other friends, judicial and otherwise, the percentage who are overweight is probably no greater than 12.5 percent.
I’m really enjoying my mental image of the 7th circuit judges lining up for their monthly Posner weigh-in. Or maybe he’s got a mental checklist he’s constantly updating. I’m sort of hoping they’re all in training for some sort of relay race, which they’ll run in robes, with a writ of mandamus as the baton.
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dm said,
August 15, 2007 @ 11:40 am
i’m glad to see him make the association affluence and skinny-ness in this country, but i’m not buying his comment about people thinking it’s ok to be fat because everyone around them is. there are far too many people in this country who live within one mile of a mc donald’s, kfc, burger king, and their 99-cent corn-syrup subsidized menus, yet have to travel 5 miles to the nearest grocery store for some potatoes.
also, you should scroll down and see commenter joe’s elegant equation: u_A - U(c_A + X*t_A) > u_B - U(c_B + X*t_B) which clearly and definitively sums up all of what i’ve just said above. it’s just so obvious.
towniewannabe said,
August 17, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
A Posner-mandated weigh-in sounds so bizarre, it’s got to be true.