I do like how corporations are to blame for the law, if they are perceived to benefit from it. For all of the elected representatives, they're just actors. Actually, maybe that's exactly the metaphor you are going for.

Well as inept as Congress be, for sure it's big ag responsible for the fact that we still grow corn for fuel and mandate that it be in your tank. buying and selling votes. Corn growers get rich, you and I pay, and a basic staple food becomes a lot more expensive for poor people

corn is not a basic staple food. its health properties are very much in question.

The real question is how to eat corn on the cob... typewriter style, or wheel style?

i go wheel

dont get me wrong, corn's delicious...i just dont think it's meant to be consumed near as much as i do it

Werthless wrote:The real question is how to eat corn on the cob... typewriter style, or wheel style?

My momma did hybrid - wheel style on both ends, then typewriter in between.

My father did random. He was the Jackson Pollock of eating corn.

I go straight typewriter.

Mrs TP - and apparently a lot of Chinese people - break it in half, hold it like a popsicle, and eat one kernel at a time. No butter, no salt. And they prefer tough yellow horse corn to sweet crisp tender corn grown for humans.

We also buy some funky shrink-wrapped blue/yellow corn that is pre-cooked and has a long shelf life. Just micro-zap for a minute. It is kinda tasty even while it is gummy and chewy.

there are reports that Israel is attacking the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount. scary stuff.

Youseff wrote:there are reports that Israel is attacking the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount. scary stuff.

Kuwait News reported yesterday that a radical rabbi led a bunch of Israeli citizens to "trespass" at the mosque to harass muslim worshipers, who repelled them by chanting religiously.

No western news outlet is reporting anything about it. Not quite an "attack"

Good details on Democracy Now this morning, on the very complicated foments and factions in Syria, Libya, Iraq and overall mid-east.

Interview starts at around 12:30

Good coverage on the protests in NYC about cop killings too

TomatoPie wrote:I get your point - apparently your only one - that politicians are bought. But bad government policy is bad government policy, no matter who paid for it.

then you don't get my point

Poroshenko looks like he could pick his teeth with Poot

Ian Lee ‏@ianjameslee 7m
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry 1 person has been killed and 45 injured by celebratory gunfire in #Gaza

Now that's a cease fire party

the man who shot himself in the back to commit suicide while cuffed actually didn't shoot self in the back but was shot in the chest but still cuffed with hands behind back while seated in a cop car


SHOCKING

Dang. That's brutal.

it's like the officials in that part of a place I'm pretty sure is within the boundaries of the United States of America do not understand what writing something down on an official report might result in

A couple of pieces from center/center left, pro-Israel Jews. The first on Europe and anti-Semitism, the second a much longer piece on media coverage of Israel. Neither of which are earth shattering, but I think the direction Europe is heading in is worrisome, and the second makes good points about the different ways the West overemphasizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict vis-à-vis pretty much everything else in the world even if you're not buying the author's different examples of anti-Israel coverage in mainstream US media.

Europe's Slow Surrender to Intolerance

An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth

Seems like a close election in the AZ-01 GOP primary going on. Sadly I have to wake up and be a real person tomorrow, so will not get to see the conclusion this evening. Tobin is the NRCC fav, Kiehne is potentially unelectable, while Kwasman, in a close-ish but out of it third, is the ratard who confused the kids on the YMCA bus for the migrant children reaching the border. Tobin is up by 84 votes, but Kiehne looks to have more friendly territory left.