We all need to figure out how to either break out of our own personal bubbles, or how to see through them better, lest our distorted views of America tear us even further apart.
The USDA is testing a program that lets poultry companies inspect their own chickens… at a rate of 175 per minute. What could possibly go wrong?
“The radio makes hideous sounds.” Who said it?
So i was just walking down the street the other day and this guy in a trenchcoat sidled up to me and offered me some milk. Now i’ll partake in a little […]
“Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.” Who said it?
Part 3…God’s own medicine The Obama administration rescinded the Bush administration’s quixotic order to eradicate poppy fields in Afghanistan. Judging by hectare cultivation numbers and harvest yields, the plan was either never […]
Until recently, according to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, we have been in the Holocene geologic epoch. The Holocene started about 10,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age […]
[This is a guest entry by Jim Gwyn, a professional chemist and environmental regulator in North Carolina.] ______________ The expert in your earlier post talking about sulfur in proteins was partially right. […]
UPDATE: – BREAKING: Americans ate 3 million melamine-tainted chickens! In a conference call with media this afternoon, USDA Assistant Administrator Kenneth Petersen revealed that as many as 3 million chickens, contaminated with […]
The melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not […]
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