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