Filler in animal feed is open secret in China – International Herald Tribune (tags: melamine smokinggun health Food pets) Spiked wheat. (Schuler Grain Co. uses additive to artificially boost the protein content of its wheat) – Encyclopedia.com WE were doing it before the Chinese – spiking wheat with additives to make the protein percentage appear higher. (tags: adulterated wheat urea melamine) Itchmo – Melamine Recall Foods List and Information (tags: Cats petfood recalls melamine) “Dr” Laura’s “Family” Values Her own “family unit” has been dysfunctional at best. She describes her childhood as “difficult,” due to the rocky, “unloving” marriage between…
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My husband David and I spend most evenings in front of the television, and I’ve blogged before about what we watch. Our watch list includes a lot of criminal investigative shows, and yes, we watch all three CSI shows – the original set in Las Vegas, the one set in Miami, and the one set in New York. These three shows have a definite hierarchy in our viewing habits and in our attitudes toward them; we like and respect the original show, we diss the Miami one but watch it anyway, and we like and respect the New York outing.…
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Boing Boing: Objectophiles who harbor passionate sexual love for buildings… Cory Doctorow: Der Spiegel has an article on the theories of Volkmar Sigusch, a German researcher whose studies of “neo-sexuality” have led him to assemble case-studies of men and women who fall in deep, passionate, sexual love with objects, from the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers to a toy steam engine. Back in 1979, Eklöf tied the knot with the Berlin Wall and legally changed her name to mark the occasion (“Mauer” means “Wall” in German). Ever since she was eight years old, Sandy K. was hopelessly in love…