so, they might as well have hired a palm reader?

Food Problems Elude Private Inspectors

By MICHAEL MOSS and ANDREW MARTIN

Published: March 5, 2009

......Mr. Hatfield, 66, an expert in fresh produce, was not aware that peanuts were readily susceptible to salmonella — which he was not required to test for anyway. And while Mr. Hatfield was inspecting the plant to reassure Kellogg and other food companies of its suitability as a supplier, the Peanut Corporation was paying for his efforts.

secrettweets

Twitter / secrettweet

26008 Think I found a lump in my breast. Unemployed & uninsured. Won't go to Dr, since I can't afford treatment anyway." http://is.gd/lxKo

10:30 PM Mar 2nd from SecretTweet

25954 my family thinks i get my great paychecks from my new corp. job. but really, 3/4 of the money if from the porn site i started :-D

10:00 PM Mar 2nd from SecretTweet

26136 Got a skirt from Ebay today delivered to my work. Couldn't resist wearing it... Pity i can't go outside in it due to the fact I am a male

about 16 hours ago from SecretTweet

Texas considers legalizing disease prevention.

A bill that would legalize needle exchange in Texas passed the State Senate HHS committee. Again. 

Read about Bill SB 188 here & the text here

Read the Houston Chronicle article here

& the Dallas Morning News blog entry here

Do not get me started.

Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
By DUFF WILSON
March 3, 2009

Free the jewce

My boo is crazoo.

Research confirms the readily apparent. Important anyway.

Cost of locking up Americans too high - Pew study

Mon Mar 2, 2009 7:44pm GMT

read the Reuters article here & 

the Pew report here

Pew Center on the States, One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections

New York is the new San Francisco?

Backed by Green Party, Comic Pastor Runs for Mayor
By REBECCA WHITE
Published: March 1, 2009

super addicting, time-suck: secrettweet

Twitter / secrettweet

like twitter sized doses of postsecret 

  just try to stop reading!!

read nytimes article about it here

Anonymous Confessions Go Online With SecretTweet

By JENNA WORTHAM

dj is the best uncle ever!

This is madness.

From Gizmodo:

This iPhone App Will Result In At Least One Accidental Shooting

By Jack Loftus, 5:00 PM on Sun Mar 1 2009
"The RNSK "Bang! Bang!" iPhone app recreates the sound of several firearms using authentic Hollywood special effects, and will probably get you shot up for real. You even hold it like a real gun.

....It's unofficially available now at the App Store ("official launch" is Monday), although we doubt it will be making an appearance in one of Apple's trendy iPhone app ads anytime soon. An "O.G. version" complete with filed off serial number, I shit you not, is due out soon..."

google news

I mostly love it. This visual, I did not need. 

This illustration accompanied an article in healthknowitall.net