Welcome to a blog of discussions about the law of torts as it has come to be in the 21st century United States.  President and Mrs. Obama are urging the people of the United States to slim down and firm up.  What better way to accomplish this goal than to cut out mass torts from our diet?  Surely the history of mass tort product liability litigation in the United States — over asbestos, Fen-Phen, silica, and myriad other raw materials and products – is a history of gluttony and excess.  So let them eat little torts.