Joni Edelman

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

Attention Civilians: Colonel David Iverson does not want to see your boobs.

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."

Body politics activist. Photographer. Chronic quoter of Monty Python. Unapologetic fat chick.

This is an article about a real product that exists, that was designed to deliver an electric shock, to YOUR BODY, to stop you from eati

You should know that she is a really awesome human.

Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.