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Scientists link Hot Dogs and Bacon to Lung Disease I just started reading "SALT: A World History", so its somewhat of a coincidence that I came across the article above linking nitrate ingestion (specifically sodium nitrate used to cure bacon, hams and sausages) to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Ironically, bacon, ham and other similar products not treated with nitrates (sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate, specifically) are deemed by the USDA as "uncured" and can be labeled and sold as such; and in fact the sole difference between a cured and uncured bacon is this minor, technical distinction. Some of the curing methods the USDA recognizes are listed here: Ham and Food Safety Curiously, while some nitrates occur in impure sea salts (mineral nitrates) and from vegetable sources, USDA curing almost certainly requires the addition of synthetic nitrates that implies an industrial food scale. To wit, artisinal "cured" products may be labeled as un...

This is a placeholder to talk about the Judge Christa Datz-Winter decision -- once I read up on it and form an opinion further than gut-wrenching disgust. ..okay. Here's my gut reaction, and since this is a blog we can get away with this sort of innuendo -- in fact, it's often encouraged to just make shit up and talk out of your fucking loser ass .. but anyway: I smell a payola. But maybe not. According the Associate Press, the Vice-president of the court Berhard Olp (don't you love German names?), Judge Datz-Winter had issued a restraining order against the husband but was reluctant to fast-track the divorce due to costs. So then, why not *say* that the fast-tracking is denied due to it being cost-prohibative? Why come up with some absurdly worded decision that flies in the face of everything Western civilization considers decent: spouses do not beat each other; we do not subjugate women! Germany, of all places, should be particularly sensitive to the message this decision...

Did Ahmadinejad call for Israel to be "wiped off the map?" Not according to several Farsi translators . [ETA, also over http://alternet.org/mediaculture/49416/ - here ] In other news, Israel now has a MySpace Profile . Apparantly Israel wants to meet scores of anorexic teenage models. Anyway, I guess Israel is starting to feel some PR strain, perhaps because some people in the United States of military service age are starting to become suspicious that the leading cheerleaders for the Iraq and new-fangled, to-be-announced Iran wars all seem to be AIPAC or Likud affiliated lobbyists and think tanks.. so, "relax guy, look over here!" And of course, it helps to have the big, bad US military in a fight if your domestic and foreign policy attitude can be summed up as: * woe is us, we are surrounded by enemies on all sides! * palestinians are dirt people * GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY (car|house|settlement|West bank) MOTHERFUCKER OR I'LL SHOOT YOU! Edit 19:57 PDT 23rd Marc...

Airport 77 is the Citizen Kane of underwater airline disaster films.

Me and Caitlin are totally watching Say Anything. Only Lloyd could rock that Clash tee shirt in the old folks home. Go Lloyd.

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