Does guilt work as a motivator to change your life for the better in a longterm way? Both my observation and my experience tell me that, at best, it’s an unnecessary expenditure of precious energy, and at worst, it can lead to bad backlash. Backlash is when you find that you’ve just eaten/drunk/done the very [...]

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I learned this week about a Dentist in Bangor, Maine named Jonathan Shenkin who proposed that people should not be allowed to purchase soda with their taxpayer-funded foodstamps. The roars of indignation that followed his letter online at the Bangor Daily News were quite fascinating. Some people see the proposal as an effort to usurp [...]

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