Food Fight
The GMA, looking out for you!
The call from the Center for Science in the Public Interest for the Food and Drug Administration to ban eight artificial food colorings over alleged links to behavioral problems in kids - substances with such appetizing names as Yellow 5, Red 40, and Orange B - has elicited the expected pushback from a hostile Grocery Manufacturers Association: There is no need for consumers to alter their purchasing and eating habits and they and their children can safely enjoy food products containing these
More... The day the Democrats lost it
From Dana Milbank’s coverage of yesterday’s food fight and disenfranchisement festival: The chaos and vitriol seemed to confirm Democrats’ fears that they might blow an election that should otherwise be an easy victory for them. Nor did the compromise fit well with the Democrats’ oft-voiced commitment to voting rights. They decided they would give Florida and Michigan half of their voting rights — one of the more arbitrary compromises since the 1787 decision that a slave should count as three-
More... RBC Live Wire 6: The Deliberations
5:19 Video is circulating of one outspoken Clinton supporter here who unloads on Barack Obama and promises to vote for John McCain in the fall. 5:15: The RBC is trying to come to a private consensus, or, at least, trying to come to an agreement on a starting point, on Michigan. 5:08: Two sources with knowledge of the rules and bylaws committee's closed-door luncheon say that members of the committee are arguing over a resolution to Michigan's conundrum, having largely settled on a solution
More... The Weekly Top 5: Issue 1
The Weekly Top 5: Issue 1 May 30th, 2008 There follows an arbitrary and partial list of the five things I most enjoyed on the Internet this week. It is neither voted for, crowdsourced, comprehensive nor exhaustive. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. 1. Food Fight Food Fight is an abridged history of American wars from World War II until the present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. 2. Gary Kasparov v. The Flying Penis No words can do justice to this one, you have to
More... Big Brother Day 33
The daily show was quite fun to watch. Poor Nobbi and his kombi. Started leaking since it rained. It rained pretty hard and washed out the Kombi, so BB allowed him to sleep inside the house, under one condition, at the doors in a 1.5mx2m rectangle. I was really expecting BB to go ‘You may stay in the house for one night.’ BB will never stop the torment of that housemate grenade! The kombi had at least 5leaks…had to get saucepans and anything that could hold water to save the kombi from floo
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