We all know that a lot of nonsense courses at American colleges are stuffed with pork ... but now that's literally true, because the University of Maryland is offering a spring semester course on "fat studies." "Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and their Intersections" is taught by Dr. Sydney Lewis, and is advertised as follows: The course examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability. This course will particularly highlight the relationship between fatness and Blackness. We approach...