If you'd like to lose your appetite this evening — a plus if you're trying to diet — then you might want to read on...
BBC has two weird human body stories posted at the same time. (Isn't one too many?)
The first story discusses how Tufts University had a surplus of donated human bodies. It seems the medical students only need about 45 per year. So about 100 were sold and somehow they ended up in the hands of the U.S. Army. In fact, I'm glad they did, since they helped the Army test some new footwear that might help prevent landmine injuries. Unfortunately the Army paid more than 30 times what Tufts does for the bodies, and some middleman (Haliburton?) got all the profit, so once again taxpayers got ripped off. Weird.
Then in some news to comfort vegetarians everywhere, the second story goes into way too much detail about a pig farm in British Columbia. It seems a serial killer ran the pig farm and, well, a rather unfortunate food chain developed. Weird.
I'm not sure what either of these two stories has to do with politics except that I expect Ted Koppel to lob a question or two about these incidents in whatever Kerry-Bush debate he moderates.