FAIR, moveon, etc.........and, I too was the fat kid......

First, Alden...I too was the fat kid. When I was in sixth grade, I weighed over 200 lbs. I am a firm believer in the whole sort-of "get of your butt" weight-loss program.

I was a pretty lazy kid. I mean, I played baseball, but I relished rainy days so that I had an excuse to sit around and watch TV. It really bothers me now to even think of that.

Anywho, I think that the only effective diet is the good old fashioned one: cook your own food from scratch, with real ingredients, and be active. That's all.

I think part of it too was a bit of a puberty by-product. Junior year in high school, I lost about 40lbs. for no apparent reason. I did become more active, but it wasn't until I was in college that I started running on a regular basis or anything like that.



Now, on to regulating the media bias. Jillian, you're right, FAIR is definitely the organization correcting the "conservative media bias," along with Media Matters for America. There are plenty that are out to correct the "liberal media bias": TheMediaReport.com, Media Research Center, Accuracy in Media, TimesWatch.org (for the NYTimes), RatherBiased.com (for Mr. Rather and CBS news).

That's why I prefer factcheck.org. They correct both liberals and concervatives. They're a little more ambivalent, I think.

Like I said, I like the think tanks as well. Here's a link that lists a bunch of them, and there's a subcategory for political and economic think tanks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Think_tanks