You Can Count On Me

The AV Club released their list of the best film performances in the 00's. I can't find anything to complain about. Some people might think using 2 spots to list both Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo from You Can Count On Me is overkill, but not me, I love that movie, and I'm thankful the AV Club dug that up to remind me that I should watch it again.

And while I really enjoyed both Peter Sarsgaard as Charles Lane and the movie Shattered Glass, I have to admit that the character the AV Club describes Sarsgaard as playing, "a consummate professional who tries to protect his reporter and the integrity of the magazine while digging into painful truths that will severely undermine both", bears little to the Charles Lane currently publishing articles claiming that poor Americans don't go hungry because there is so many fat people -

Again, if Lane had read the study that he is so busy dismissing, he might have noticed that there is a connection between obesity and food security. Indeed, two of the questions in the food security survey focus on the inability of respondents to buy balanced meals. More on the connection between poverty, nutritious foods and obesity can be found here. People who have little money to spend on food aren’t able to buy nutritious foods, both because such foods are more expensive and because poor people often live miles from grocery stores, meaning that they have to buy most of their food in convenience stores where only three food groups are featured — soda, candy bars and snacks.

So, Mr. Lane, scoff all you will at people who are poor and fat. Prop that up in your own feeble mind as a justification for ignoring issues of food security, hunger and nutritional health among the poor. And, please, sir, go ahead and have a second helping of everything on Thanksgiving. Have another glass of that $60 bottle of Merlot. After all, you deserve it for all your hard work.

From Sadly, No!