Ruby Tuesday

“Much of what we’ve been taught about metabolism is incorrect. The ‘eat less and exercise more’ versions of diets are dinosaurs that ignore the current known facts about how our bodies actually function.”
― Sara Givens, Leptin Resistance: The Leptin Reset: Discover How To Fix Your Fat Hormones And Reboot Your Fat Burning Engine Into First Gear Again

“He recalls sympathetically the words of The Observer after Britain’s disastrous military intervention over the Suez Canal in 1956: ‘We had not realized that our government was capable of such folly and such crookedness.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And how they get away with it

“The Establishment represents the institutional and intellectual means by which a wealthy elite defends its interests in a democracy. This was, after all, once far more straightforward to do. Before 1918, there were still property qualifications that prevented many working-class people from voting; and before Parliament extended the suffrage under pressure from below in 1832, 1867 and 1884, only the very privileged could vote. Because those without property were denied the right to vote, the political system was the plaything of the elite, existing simply to serve its interests.”
― Owen Jones, The Establishment: And how they get away with it

“Legal analysts said the entertainer’s significant support for the family would inevitably cast some doubts on their denials of any molestation.”
― Carl Toms, Michael Jackson's Dangerous Liaisons