Tom Cruise has my undivided attention when he's on screen.

The top-heavy military is what happens when people perceive cuts to its budget as being "unpatriotic" and attack programs like Head Start instead. We go to war, we buy a whole bunch of materiel, hire a whole bunch of warriers. War's over, we sell off the materiel, but we're stuck with a wartime personnel bloat, all of ...more

ChickenorEgg, you're probably right about the origin of these items: candied ginger is very popular in Asia, esp. China.

What, you take the side effect of death seriously, even when delivered in a soft, soothing seductive murmur over a video of a man and woman laughing and pushing a child in a swing?

I dont think the FDA (and by extension, CA) has the legal power to pull a product off the market. They can, however, require it to be properly labeled, and if your favorite candy says it contains lead, it's likely you wont buy it, right? That is how the agencies get around the restrictions congress has placed on them.

I thiink that sort of strategy is actually a distraction. How could you set up a math problem if you're reviewing what you know about serial killers in your head?

American workers should actually lobby hard for increased gas prices or taxes. The more that one cost item rises, the less cost-effective it is for employers to move their manufacturing overseas. So tax the bejeesuz out of gasoline and take the bus to your new job manufacturing cars or lawn mowers or clothes or toys or...more

Don't forget the scarcity of employer-sponsored health care, the manipulation of hours to keep an employee under 40 per week so she'll be classified as part time and so she won't get any overtime, and the lack of job security.

Kinda like taxing cigarettes to fund a Head Start program. So, like, what happens when you've successfully extinguished the behavior you abhor?