If fatty foods and snacks and drinks sweetened with sugar and high fructose corn syrup are proven to be addictive, food companies may face the most drawn-out consumer safety battle since the anti-smoking movement took on the tobacco industry a generation ago.

-From Bloomberg. Researchers are finding that fatty, sugary foods have similar effects on the brain as addictive drugs.

All Ye Good Citizens of America

The competent systems managers who went to the good schools, those of us now so consumed by our busy lives, are responsible for maintaining the panopticon of modern American culture, in which we can all see the goal, but we can’t see each other.

Detritus

Who among us is ready to make an actual sacrifice to restore the vitality of our country, of our planet?