The recent tainted pet food scandal has brought to light the deceptive practices the Chinese Food & Agriculture industries engage in. The chemical that is believed to have caused the animal deaths, melamine, is added to increase the apparent protein content of wheat gluten. But this is just the tip of the iceberg with regard to the practices used to deceive customers and inflate revenues.
A report in the Internet Journal of Toxicology covers some of the techniques used to improve revenue on eggs. The most outrageous of the cases has to do with a completely faked egg. The fake yolk-making technique relies on the same chemicals used by molecular gastronomists to make ‘caviar’ from various base substances.
Penn & Teller’s Bullshit episode “The Best” includes thoughts from (and was probably inspired by) Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice.
Country suffering from “Bush Fatigue” according to Bush 41. No kidding.
Dumb Little Man points out there is a free FICO estimator on bankrate.com. By answering a few questions about your credit habits, you can get a picture of where you fall in on the range of FICO scores. At the very least, it will help you figure out if you have anything to worry about.
Before you let idiots like Matt Sanchez or Newt Gingrich go off on a tangent about how liberalism is responsible for the Virginia Tech incident put things in context. About 81 people died every day due to guns in 2004 (the last year figures were available.) The New York Times sums up who is getting killed in these incidents in a diagram.
In response to my criticism of his sub-moronic ramblings, Matt Sanchez has publicly called me out as a homosexual (from his comment on my previous post):
Another disgruntled homosexual probably coming off a 3-day binge.
He fails to indicate what it was I am allegedly binging on. Cock? Crystal meth? Ugly Betty? Only Matt Sanchez actually knows, since he actually is a homosexual. Matt Sanchez had sex with men on film, and that’s a claim that I can’t honestly make. So, maybe Matt can enlighten us as to what it is that disgruntled homosexuals like to binge on.
When Matt Sanchez isn’t writing trifling editorials for the Columbia Spectator (ugly Betty anyone?,) he pseudo-editorializes on his blog. Apparently they don’t teach logic at Columbia because in this idiotic post he conflates the activities of the International Socialist Organization and the Take Back the Night marches, suggesting they are somehow related. Furthermore, as repugnant as Sanchez may find the ISO, it’s anti-racist activities have zero to do with an horrific incident of rape. Worse yet are his ham-fisted, sub-Coulter conclusions; namely that Take Back the Night marches don’t stop insane rapists, so they’re useless and that participants are Starbucks-drinking dopes.
Blogger Wang also covers the inanity.
Blogger Jimmy Akin has apparently found a picture of the legendary Christian comic book publisher, Jack Chick. He was photographed with Pastor Bob Nogalski, whose life story closely parallels the story of “Bad Bob.” “Bad Bob” follows the story of a colicky baby who grows up to be a badass who repents. Thank goodness for happy endings.
Cryptome.org has photos of the mass murder at Virginia Tech. There is a gallery of photos of the victims. Very sad.
Matt Sanchez continues to rewrite history, but some people are onto him. For example, there is an extensive dossier at County Historian. There’s plenty of evidence there that Sanchez worked as an gay porn actor and as an escort. I can understand his desire to put his past behind him, but in this day and age it doesn’t really pay to lie about it.