So that I do not get too hopeless or too angry, I am mentally erasing the "October 8" dateline on This news story and replacing it with an "April 1" dateline.

Because, that makes much more sense. (Otherwise, the story is definitely a Wednesday WTF - which, thanks to someone on Ivory Tower Fiber Freaks on Ravelry, I can tell my gentle readers stands for "What's THIS For?")

I guess they measured hand temperatures and extrapolated.

I'm coming to hate extrapolation. Because it's evil when it's badly used. (Well, I suppose that's true of any tool).

I'm afraid that they're just going to keep hammering, hounding, pounding, snarking on all of us fatties until we all give up and get our stomachs cut out to make the noise STOP.

I'm not exactly 'fun sized' and I wear mittens (or gloves) in the winter. Even in southern Oklahoma. I realize one observation does not a data set make, but my conclusion - that "chubbettes" need glove, too - is as reasonable as the one these researchers seem to be drawing.

Seriously: "Save the mitten industry: go on a diet." Yeah, right, great. There is a famous Johnny Cash photo that sums up my reaction to that.