A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Among the many things I’ve been doing lately is gaining weight. In fact I’ve been doing a lot of that. It’s something that happens when you make the mistake of using food to treat how you feel. [...]

Recently I wrote about discoveries of Melamine and a related compound, cyanuric acid, that had been found in US produced baby formula. Now there’s a (FINALLY!) growing concern over the issue.

I’m sure that most of us remember Melamine, it’s the stuff that a couple years ago started showing up in pet foods and then baby foods that originated in China. Well, Now it’s “detected in samples of top-selling U.S. infant formula”. What’s really obnoxious is the rest of that statement.. “but federal regulators insist the products are safe. “

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Well, the economic news is continuing to slide and things aren’t looking good. According to the labor department, employers cut another 62,000 jobs in June, bringing the total to around 400,000 or so since January ‘08.
The cause? Well, lets just say that I think it’s reasonable to lay the [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Many people are familiar with the Shakespeare line from Romeo and Juliet:
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.
Now I don’t know about most people but once in a while I actually think of that line, partly because I like Shakespeare, [...]