Healthy aka yucky lunches spawn new breed of criminal…

Straight A student suspended for possession of…..Oregano.   From AOL news…. Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports. Unfortunately for [...]

Amusing: GW was more concerned with China’s human rights violations than Obama?

Just sayin’. From the UK Guardian on the budget-buster of a party a-coming to Washington this week: The black-tie dinner at the White House on Wednesday night contrasts with George Bush’s workmanlike lunch in 2006. According to Chinese media reports at the time, Hu, who, like other Chinese leaders, places a lot of importance on protocol, [...]

Couple feeds homeless until government intervenes

Classic.  Bobby and Amanda Herring spent more than a year providing food to homeless people in downtown Houston every day. They fed them, left behind no trash and doled out warm meals peacefully without a single crime being committed, Bobby Herring said. That ended two weeks ago when the city shut down their “Feed a [...]

Candy Cane Carnage

Oh the horrors.  A group of 10 high school boys homegrown terrorists,  members of the nefarious Christmas Sweater Club, were accused of “‘maliciously maim[ing] students with the intent to injure”.  What were their methods – Explosives? Poison?  Nay.  Far more heinous, my friends.  They are accused of….(I shudder to type the words….) tossing candy canes to [...]

Nanny state dreamin’

Does it ever end? From the WaPo yesterday, the uptopian grandeur of life in DC sans air conditioning: Washington didn’t grind to a sweaty halt last week under triple-digit temperatures. People didn’t even slow down. Instead, the three-day, 100-plus-degree, record-shattering heat wave prompted Washingtonians to crank up their favorite humidity-reducing, electricity-bill-busting, fluorocarbon-filled appliance: the air [...]

“Beware the celery juice” UPDATED with recipe!

So reports Ianswife, a fellow Potluck blogress, regarding the “nitrate-free” claims of certain brands of bacon.  She writes: Here’s a neat little trick.  Preying on needless fears of nitrites, food makers create “Nitrite and Nitrate-free” bacon using celery juice as an ingredient.  Of course, celery juice creates nitrite in bacon.  In fact, celery juice creates higher levels of [...]