Round up with a healthy dollop of people scared by modernity

Maybe it's time to stop drinking all that bottled water, or at least limit yourself to a couple a week. http://www.naturalnews.com/042126_bottled_water_endocrine_disruptors_chemical_contamination.html

Food news! Barilla, wake up and smell modernity. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/09/barilla-pasta-hates-gay-people.html

Dear Washington Post. Fire your entire Editorial Board, go bankrupt, or stop patting yourself on the back and pretending your tired, predictable, and shitty political reporting is helpful or meaningful. Thank you. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/why-this-is-not-just-washington-breakdown-in-3-graphs-and-1-story/280099

Now I am afraid that a small, but significant chunk of the country is scared of modernity. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-04/why-republicans-shut-down-the-government.html

Old round up that I had to blow the dust off of

Saint Reagan, huh? Glad to know that the man, the myth, the legend didn't mind the use of sarin and mustard gas on innocents. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/25/secret_cia_files_prove_america_helped_saddam_as_he_gassed_iran

The science of balls. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24016988

Maybe it's time to stop drinking all that bottled water, or at least limit yourself to a couple a week. http://www.naturalnews.com/042126_bottled_water_endocrine_disruptors_chemical_contamination.html

Brain cramps

 This week in science news:

Men of Scandinavia, please mind your balls in the water. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10234986/Swedish-men-told-to-beware-testicle-munching-fish.html

Behold! The newest classified mammal, the olinguito. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/For-the-First-Time-in-35-Years-A-New-Carnivorous-Mammal-Species-is-Discovered-in-the-Western-Hemisphere--219762981.html

Hey hipsters, hippies, and rich people, you are not smarter than 100+ years of accumulated public health knowledge. Now go vaccinate your fucking children. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/whats_with_rich_people_hating_vaccines/

...and I come back from a long vacation to this?

Fuck yeah! Modern day Pinkertons! Let's hire thugs again to do the dirty work of tbuisness and state governments. I feel we are going backwards again... http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/07/rent_an_army.php?ref=fpblg

Jenny McCarthy is a danger to public health and safety. Seriously. Please remind ABC of this. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/09/jenny_mccarthy_antivax_advocate_considered_for_co_host_on_abc_s_the_view.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

And finally,
If this is what a Republican paradise looks like at a state level then I for damn sure will never move there. Can Republicans please fight their strange inner urges and govern responsibily rather than look like children set free in a candy factory with no adult supervision or self-restraint?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/opinion/the-decline-of-north-carolina.html?src=me&ref=general

And just a friendly reminder to the rest of America: It's a fucking hoagie! http://i.imgur.com/4z7UsRr.png

Post time

Dr. Speaker Boehner, please learn some fucking history: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/28/17505004-boehner-has-no-use-for-lincoln-in-context?lite

Super Metro map! http://i.imgur.com/EWEkt7o.jpg

I love laughing at Guy Fieri and his fucking donkey sauce: http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/guy-fieri-parody-menu-prompts-big-online-laughs--with-a-side-of-accusations-173542460.html

More ramblings of a crazed historian

History lesson! The topic today is soda and racism. Go:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/when-jim-crow-drank-coke.html?src=me&ref=general

(Sorry for the colorful language, but I needed to get out some frustration)
Why the fuck does MS need to make everything so fucking confusing? If you make it more confusing, you aren't "revolutionizing" anything.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jan13/01-29O365PR.aspx

Quentin Tarantino is still a douchey asshole, part (oh, I've lost count)
http://youtu.be/-jRiwQRVIlI

Is there something in the water in VA that is making republican politicians less interested in logical policies?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/09/bob_mcdonnell_s_horrible_plan_to_eliminate_the_gas_tax.html