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Why We Love to Think the Jobless Are Lazy

Matt Cantor — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 07:27:09 CST

In America, we like to think that the unemployed are to blame for their joblessness—that, in the words of Ben Stein, they’re “people with poor work habits and poor personalities." But any economist will tell you that’s not true, writes David Sirota in Salon . The real problem: there are...

America: Laziest Country on Earth

Kevin Spak — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:55:52 CST

Let the Olympics rate each country’s elite athletes; the Daily Beast wanted to know which country had the laziest general populace. So they pitted 24 developed nations against each other in four statistical categories: calories consumed per day, television viewing, Internet usage, and aversion to sports. The “winners”: The United...

Sitting at That Computer Is Shortening Your Life

Jane Yager — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:20:43 CST

Hey you, reading this at your computer: You might want to get up and stretch. A new study shows that every hour per day spent in front of that monitor raises your risk of early death from heart disease by a whopping 18%—ie, someone who spends an average of...

Lazy Bosses Go Wayyyy Back

Clay Dillow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:54:27 CDT

Think your boss is the first to delegate the duties and enjoy sunny days on the links? Such indulgences go way back, writes Stanley Bing in Fortune . Two thousand years ago, Cleopatra ruled Egypt by dazzling the male rulers of her time. More recently, America’s beloved Ben Franklin lived like...

Lazy Gamblers Rent Scooters in Vegas

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:34:15 CDT

In Las Vegas, motorized scooters offer access to expansive casino floors to the elderly, the disabled—and now the lazy. For 40 chips a day, a growing number of young, healthy tourists are renting the scooters so they can hop from the slot machine to the craps table at up...