Do you know what's in your Twinkie?
Dr. Phillips says there are 39 ingredients packed into the dessert, and all but one are processed.
The ingredients cellulose gum, calcium sulfate, and polysorbate 60 are also used in sheetrock, shampoo, laundry detergent, and even rocket fuel. Author Steve Ettlinger spent five years tracking down the source of every ingredient found in a Twinkie.
Oh, come on. Haven't people who have made it to their mid-70s and landed in a nursing home earned the right to be free of the health police?
It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.
They wore sandwich boards proclaiming, "Give Us Our Just Desserts" and "They're Carbs, Not Contraband."
The farm legislation proceeding through Congress symbolizes much of what's wrong with Washington. It's government by inertia. We do today what we did yesterday, because politicians draw their power from distributing benefits and various interest groups feel entitled to receive them -- even if they serve no defensible public purpose. Our extravagant farm programs capture the absurdity as well as any other.
Ha. The Indiana and Ohio bottle and can Mafia are running their contraband into Michigan and costing the state a bundle:
LANSING
My love affair with Royal Crown Cola began in college when we started drinking RC with Crown Royal whisky. That drink is commonly known as "Royal Crown Crown Royal," but we just called it "Double Crown."
-- Quatrain XI of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ," translation by Edward Fitzgerald, 5th edition
I love the kitchen, so I'll bake the bread. You bring the poems and find us a tree to sit under. But we have Circuit Judge John D. Tinder to thank for the better wine selection:
Should the drinking age be lowered?
An increasing number of college officials are arguing that current drinking laws have failed. Instead of keeping students away from alcohol, they argue, the laws simply drive underage drinking underground and toward unsafe extremes.
How are we going to close in on No. 1 if we're going in the wrong direction?
We're still fat.
Indiana ranked ninth out of all states in the Trust for America's Health annual report of obesity in the United States.
And while Indiana fell a notch from last year, when it was tied for eighth, the percentage of overweight adults here rose slightly from 26.2 to 26.8, according to the report.
The law goes a step too far:
As part of a Government drive to curb anti-social behaviour, police have been granted new powers to ban troublesome drinkers from town centres.
Officers in England and Wales are able to issue "directions to leave" to people they believe will cause alcohol-related crime or disorder.
Everybody has heroes. Jim Delligatti is one of mine:
McDonald's without the Big Mac would be like the Pittsburgh Steelers without their black and gold team colors.
Thus, it's only fair that the franchise's signature sandwich, and the man who invented it, will be feted today at the opening of the Big Mac Museum Restaurant, in North Huntingdon.
