My roving reporter on all things infantile, Skip Oliva, turned up another good one – the SweetHaus. There are whimsical touches throughout the store with jars of brightly colored candies, old doors and windows converted to banquettes and display cases, a candy mural, and my favorite chandelier of all time. So I was in love [...]

Here’s a small note about the FDA that hasn’t received too much attention in the news: Senate Appropriators Pass $50M FDA Budget Increase, Mainly For Food Law. The Senate appropriations panel cleared the fiscal 2012 FDA budget bill late Wednesday (Sept. 7) to boost FDA funding by $50 million beyond this year’s level, with the bulk [...]

For effect, I only want to reprint the first paragraph of this article in the Wall Street Journal: A senior executive [Dr. Trevor Mundel] at the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as president of the philanthropy’s global health group, a position that can influence the health of millions [...]

A 300-pound, White Castle-eating guy just wants to sit in a normal-sized chair like a “normal person” with his abnormally obese body. He can’t, so he is suing White Castle for not accommodating his fat ass. The religion of victimology gains another voice. Martin Kessman, 64, filed a lawsuit against the fast-food giant last week [...]

Earlier this year I wrote an article about the inane Planet Fitness chain and its commitment to making sure you don’t judge anyone within its walls. Planet Fitness advertises its “Judgment Free Zone” – a registered trademark, and don’t make me laugh – as a place where “members can relax, get in shape, and have [...]

Here is Lew Rockwell’s podcast with me about paleo, ancestral health, food freedom, and the state.

The state of Michigan is going to force doctors to report the BMI of their child patients to the state. Gov. Rick Snyder plans to direct doctors in Michigan to begin monitoring the body weight of their young patients and provide the data to a state registry in one of the most extensive government efforts [...]

On the LewRockwell.com blog, Laurence Vance mentions the parade in Richmond, Michigan that become the Red Square on 9/11. To quote from Vance’s blog post: There were the usual state police, county sheriff cruisers, SWAT vans, motorcycle cops, town cops, bicycle cops, dune buggy cops, and other assorted representatives of state sponsored terrorism; but then [...]

I like to cull raw milk propaganda off the web every now and then, if only for some quick laughs. Why raw milk? Because raw milk is under siege by the political powers and special interests probably more so than any other thing that I can think of within the last few years. Well, on [...]

Check out this video from Subway to Sally, a German Medieval Folk Metal band.