For internet addicts who want to keep tabs on swine flu developments the Center for Disease Control has a Twitter Feed to provide you with up to the minute facts, stats and reminders. For example, you CANNOT catch swine flu from eating pork. See black people? Don’t say I never gave you nuffin. For the Read More
takahe83 takes on the embellishment of the healthfulness of certain foods. I am always amused by the health claims on food; take, for example, the frequent “low carb!” claims on vinagrettes (of course they’re low carb – salad dressings are almost all fat) or even the “low fat!” claim on your packet of marshmallows. Perhaps Read More
(x-posted from here) Out of all the news to come out of the “tea parties” staged across the country Wednesday, this was truly the most depressing bit of info: Today, Chick-fil-A is lending its support to the tea party protesters by providing a “free medium iced tea with any purchase.” … The founders of Chick-fil-A, Read More
(x-posted from here) As someone who is pretty much in the tank for various forms of health-related government intervention, I’m not terribly bothered by the idea of a tax on soda and other forms of junk food. Over the long-term, health-care costs will continue to stay relatively high unless there is a significant shift in Read More
blackink: In the lull between March Madness this weekend, try to fit in a viewing – or a re-viewing, if you will – of Spike Lee’s hoops-themed drama He Got Game. It would have been easy to write off the film, originally released in 1998, as a farfetched mishmash of traditional themes: a boy grasping for manhood in Read More
(cross-posted from U.S. of J) I can’t find the clip now, but there was an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher a few years ago where Maher was trying to draw attention to the fact that our agricultural system is, to a large extent, organized around the production of corn. Being that this was Read More
[via.] Upping that MPG. How much of a roll is your boy Obama on? California has been angling to make cars more efficient for a minute now, and it makes up such a big part of the market for cars that if it set its own (tighter) fuel efficiency standards for cars, it would effectively be Read More
Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Chinese food, for those of you who love to retain random, fascinating bits of information (read: quadmoniker, universeexpanding). Brought to you by Jenny 8. Lee, the most type-A person I know. (She actually talks at this pace all the time, while simultaneously grilling you about Read More
Obama to Name Cabinet Nominees. Obama is finna formally announce HRC’s nomination to Secretary of State in the next hour, meaning Kevin Drum has to eat his hat. (The vaguely-superhuman Samantha Power , the Pulitzer-winning foreign policy wonk and close Obama friend who was jettisoned from the Obama campaign for calling HRC a “monster,” is also Read More
Seems like most of my regular readers don’t eat red meat (and presumably pork). That’s one of the black people things that I’ll never get. I respect people who eat what they feel is right for them — my sis is a vegetarian and my dad doesn’t eat red meat or pork — but I’m Read More
