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Food and Drink

Fa(s)t Food Advertising

We're not a fan of advertisers or fast food chains (or fat kids, for that matter), but the campaign to blame obese children on fast food advertising is laughable, at best. It's good to see an ad wonk slash back. Link [http://ana.blogs.com/jaffe/

It's the High, Stupid

Regular readers of this blog know we're not friends of marijuana, but jokers like this make us re-think our position: > Michigan State Rep. Dudley Spade has announced that he'll soon be introducing legislation to outlaw candy made with hemp or designed to taste like marijuana.

1,000 Bars in a Year II

When we ran the post yesterday about the fellow who is frequenting 1,000 bars this year, we didn't realize he has a blog on which he chronicles his pilgrimmage. We love bars and their different attributes. The blog does a nice job of capturing the "aura&

Great, The Muslims Agree with Us

"A growing number of Muslims are becoming vegetarians . . . because the practices of factory farms conflict with the Islamic law for slaughtering animals and treat animals cruelly." Touchstone, June 2005, p. 51. We're not vegetarians, of course, but we've speculated on this site that such

Brews You Can Use

"The U.S. Marines' first recruiting station was in a bar." You can find that and much more drinking trivia here [http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/FunFacts/AlcoholTrivia.html#.]. We haven't verified the accuracy of the trivia, but many of the facts are known by