Saturday

So what's in our food (besides HVP and maybe salmonella)? Take a look ... | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times

So what's in our food (besides HVP and maybe salmonella)? Take a look ... | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times
Oh yeah, that Chinese drywall: "The coal-ash muck is laden with heavy metals linked to cancer... [but] isn't considered hazardous waste. EPA officials late last year delayed a decision whether to propose reclassifying coal ash as hazardous. Doing so would limit where it could be sent for disposal, possibly increasing the projected $1.2 billion cleanup cost for TVA ratepayers and affecting the ability to recycle the ash into cement and building materials."

Monday

Heads Up: Prayer Warriors and Sarah Palin Are Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America | News & Politics | AlterNet

Heads Up: Prayer Warriors and Sarah Palin Are Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America | News & Politics | AlterNet

The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care - NYTimes.com

The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care - NYTimes.com: "“People think if we do nothing, we will have what we have now,” said Karen Davis, the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health care research group in New York. “In fact, what we will have is a substantial deterioration in what we have.”"