E. coli in the hamburger and spinach?  No problem.

Melamine residue in pig feed?  So what?

Salmonella in the peanut butter?  Whoopsie.

But mess with my chocolate and you're in big trouble, mister:

http://www.crooksandliars.c...

From those wonderful people who (almost) brought you catsup-as-a-vegetable.

Don't know why this bit of dry British humor struck me as so familar.  I'm sure it'll come to me.

http://uk.geocities.com/chu...

The White House "lost" five million e-mails, including (very likely) specific ones asked for both by Special Prosector Patrick Fitzgerald and Congressional committees

http://www.citizensforethic......

How could this happen?  Well, one explanation involves Karl Rove personally deleting e-mails...which is why even the RNC thought something was wrong and started archiving his missives specifically.

Sounds like this is the "new information" Fitzgerald mentioned might make him re-open the Plame investigation.

What philosophy do you follow? A friend sent me this a short quiz to see how you stack up against the great minds of history

http://quizfarm.com/test.ph...

I wound up primarily Utilitarian with a side of Existentialist and Hedonist.  Gotta work on bringing up that Hedonism average, it used to be my best subject.

(For those wondering about the blog title, it's the first line of "The Philosopher's Song" by Monty Python.)

  Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, who was very rarely stable,

  Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table

  David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel

  And Wittgenstein was a beery swine, who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/p...