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06 April 2012

texts from hillary clinton

the hot new tumblr.

thx starla and bun-bun (for sending me this instead of posting it yourselves)!

speaking of tumblrs, is everyone still reading the second best website on the internet?

i eat the pizza up, up, up, up, up

last night dave and i ate 4 pizzas at alligator lounge. they are small, but still.

bon appétit! i wouldn't eat that if i were you.

It's been a bad few weeks for food. Get read to not enjoy anything anymore.

A new study indicates that sugar, in the quantities most Americans consume it, may be as toxic as alcohol and cigarettes. A scientist at UC Davis has shown that excessive consumption of sugar and high fructose corn syrup overwhelm the liver, which then converts the extra fructose into fat that can clog arteries as LDL cholesterol plaque. Whats even more alarming is that a professor at Harvard believes that some forms of cancer have "evolved" to grow by feeding off of the excess sugar in our systems that would normally be absorbed by fats and muscle. The problem with all of this is that sugar has been added to pretty much everything we eat including many thing we don't usually consider unhealthy sources of sugar, such as breads, yogurt, fruit juices and peanut butter. So basically, that tumor inside of you is just going to continue to grow until consumes you.

Now that sugar is essentially the same as rat poison, you might be thinking you'll continue finding joy in your life through food by eating delicious fatty red meat (after all, it's that sugar giving you heart disease). Well, think again; basically, your life gets shorter every time you consume red meat. It's also going to give you heart disease and cancer.

But that's okay, because you can always chow down at chik-fil-a even if you're gay, right? Ehhhhhh, I wouldn't if I were you. The US Agricultural Department is planning to expand a pilot program that allows poultry processors to manage their own inspections. But whistle blowers are warning that the plan has some major and seemingly obvious problems. For instance, USDA documents released under the freedom of information act show that processing facilities in the pilot program were missing "defective" birds at high rates. In this case, defective means diseased or covered in feces.

Oh, and let's not forget about pink slime.

With the threat to Alaska's marine life looming, United States Coast Guard brought an end to the eerie story of Japan's drifting ghost ship by unleashing cannon fire and sinking the vessel in what experts deemed the most environmentally-safe location on Thursday. The Ryou-Un Maru, which news outlets have dubbed the 'Ghost Ship', was dislodged and set adrift off the shores of Hokkaido during last year's tsunami and according to CNN (video below), "drifted undetected until late last month when a Canadian coastal air patrol spotted it several hundred miles off the Queen Charlotte Islands, and archipelago on the north coast of British Columbia." (via)