For Ken's pleasure. Note: filed under Health.

Does gum really stay in your digestive system for 7 years? Does chocolate really give you acne?

Brilliant.

. . . or Doubling Over . . .

Map of the U.S that plots whether there are more grocery stores or bars in a given location. Wisconsin is ready to party.

This study was obviously done by a bunch of commie pinko professors ...

Specifically, the thief grabbed more than 400 boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs.

A literally gut wrenching story about beef production in the United States, and how regulatory failures left thousands sick and one 22 year old paralyzed.

What Will's position reflects instead is ideology: who cares that the federal government could build a better mousetrap? They're the government and that's bad. His argument is really no more sophisticated than that. If a libertarian conservative wants to make this argument, more power to them, but they absolutely should not be turning around and suggesting that a public option would raise health care costs. They're saying, rather, that they're morally opposed to the cost savings that would ensue.

Sure, Iran is the sexy news story right now. But there's another battle happening, an extremely important one for Americans of our generation, and the hopes for the underdog are almost as lopsided.

Mark Bittman on why the western diet is screwed.

I was postulating with a friend of mine the other day and he brought up a really really insightful comment that I wanted to hear thoughts from the Ox Gang on . . .

The McGangBang ranks up there in the holy pantheon of WTF. It's a sandwich made from a double cheeseburger and a McChicken sandwich — where you put an entire McChicken sandwich inside a double cheeseburger. It's a creative manipulation of existing menu items, and an exercise in frugality: taking two items off of the Dollar Menu and creating an entirely new sandwich for a total of $2.16. Truly, it's a sandwich that's more than the sum of its parts.

Amy Kovacs, the resident baker at Butter Bakery Cafe in South Minneapolis, was kind enough to share a snapshot of her fridge to launch what will be a recurring Hot Dish feature.

Ok, the militant catholic wing of my family recently forwarded me this e-mail. Before responding myself, I thought I would give you all a chance to enjoy this.

If you were to all mysteriously disapear one day, we will survive...

"Vegetarians regarded with benevolent amusement." This Steak & Fish place in St Paul looks like it's worth checking out.

I know they don't offer this perk at my company!

Ever seen a traveling bar before?

File under: OH MY GOD, THERE'S A HORN IN MY LEG.
Gore photos from the running of the bulls. Yikes.