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Web Research: Dowd Wrong on Pig Odor Research. Call Pending
I’m waiting for a callback from the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Inspection, but a little web research and some good ol’ common sense tells me that Dowd’s wrong on pig odor as well. In fact, she may be deliberately misstating the problem, as she did by identifying the USDA’s Honey Bee Research [...]
Read More..>>Call #2: Maureen Dowd is Wrong on Bees Too
Using Maureen Dowd’s “honey bee factory in Weslaco Texas” as a search term did not bring up anythign about factories. It DID however link me to the Honey Bee Research Unit of the USDA, located in Weslaco. It took a few calls, since the office was closed, but I spoke to Mr. Kevin [...]
Read More..>>Call #1: Maureen Dowd is Wrong on Grape Genetic Research.
I am going line by line through Dowd’s column and fact-checking, since a number of her allegations seem to be one-sided (like her arugula attack a year ago).
So far my first call, to the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station’s Center for Grape Genetics, has yielded a lot of info Maureen left out. According [...]
I Will Do Maureen Dowd’s Job Today
Anyone else remember when Maureen Dowd started attacking Obama as an “elitist” for talking about arugula to farmers, while leaving out the salient point that the farmers he was talking to were arugula farmers?
What turns off voters is the detached egghead quality that they tend to equate with a wimpiness, wordiness and a lack of [...]
The Inquirer Get More Irrelevant Every Day
Is this really news?
Read More..>>Karen Heller to Philadelphia: Drop Dead
Via ellen in comments, just what we need: the irrelevant Karen Heller in the irrelevant Philadelphia Inquirer defending the Mayor:
Now, what if the problem is critical? Immediately, you would cut spending.
This is precisely what Mayor Nutter is trying to do. In November, he announced that the city faced a $1 billion shortfall over the [...]
Reuters Rides the Tire Swing
Via TPM, the stenographers intrepid reporters at
Read More..>>Shorter Christine Flowers, Annotated
Bada Bing, Bada Boom
Bada Bing: email sent at 2:25 today to Booman:
Speaking with my old man this AM about the Palin appearance. He suggested perhaps the mckkkain campaign deliberately put the pit bull in front of what they knew would be a hostile crowd in order to mitigate the damage from this week’s rallies. It not [...]
Jonathan Martin
The best part is that the picture describes both what Jonathan Martin is eating and Jonathan Martin himself:
Tim Griffin has long been one of Karl Rove’s closest “protégés” and has been at the epicenter of many of the most significant episodes of Republican sleaze over the last decade — in particular, he has been a [...]
