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Jon Carroll: The American empire is beginning to die.

In completely related news, Americans buy SUVs to be safe, even though SUVs are capable of having accidents even without hitting anything. See the Frontline report, Rollover. (Soundbite: It’s a myth that SUVs are safer than cars. People in SUVs die just as often as people in cars; they just die differently. They are more likely to die in rollovers, and they are much more likely to kill other people.)

And still more: the American Journal for Public Health announces a study that concludes that restaurant portion sizes have grown over the past 20 years “in parallel with increasing body weights”. Here is the abstract: The Contribution of Expanding Portion Sizes to the US Obesity Epidemic.

Like Jon Carroll said, denial is the national creed. Driving your armored vehicle to the local burger joint for a super-sized dose of salted fat won’t kill you, and besides, you had a really hard day! If any of this was unsafe, people couldn’t sell it, right?

(Please excuse my sarcasm. I really do think the world is coming to an end.)