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Tanimura & Antle Inc. of Salinas, California announced a voluntary recall yesterday for cartons of bulk or wrapped romaine marked with the lot code 531380.
The lettuce was shipped to Continue reading »
Remember the ad that went “dentists recommend sugar-free gum for their patients who chew gum?” Now they’re trying to convince us to take up gum-chewing; yes, even to give gum to our small children to “protect” their teeth.
The idea is that Continue reading »
Here’s a sad, sad story. A newborn baby in Lexington, Kentucky was apparently taken from his crib and dragged into his back yard by the family dog. Alexander James Smith’s parents thought their new son was sleeping, when they looked outside and saw Continue reading »
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance,” said former GE CEO, Jack Welch, speaking to the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference recently. “There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”
And thus a big stink was raised.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say Continue reading »
The judge who overturned Florida’s ban on gay parents adopting children has been demoted. Judge Cindy Lederman made Florida history in November 2008, granting the adoption of the children of a gay foster dad who had been raising them all their lives. Judge Lederman called the ban unconstitutional.
After her ruling, the state Continue reading »
I had a boss once who was prone to strange perspectives on things. One day, he came across an article about shark’s fin soup, and how the mad desire to eat it was endangering sharks.
“Why would anyone want to eat a soup made from the cartiliginous appendage of a dangerous sea creature?” he asked aloud. “Except maybe for revenge…” he further speculated.
The fact is that there are not enough people who owe sharks revenge to create a serious problem for sharks. Shark attacks in Florida, for example, Continue reading »
New columnist, Marjorie Osterhout comenced her work this week at the bright and shiny new Seattle Post-Intelligencer online by asking her teenaged nieces how not to look old. In order to get their attention, she texted them:
“Emergency! How do I not look old?”
They texted back with recommendations to Continue reading »
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