Best of "Bogus Lists"

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Saturday September 18, 2010 · 6:50 PM PDT

2010/09/18 · 18:50

Those "Best Of" stickers you see around town, so proudly displayed on the doors of restaurants run by hardworking families or operated by soulless corporations, are little more than meaningless crap. Whether they bear the logos of Citysearch, King5, UrbanSpoon, or Yelp, they are, for all intents & purposes, useless. They're not actual scams, in that no one is swindled (except, perhaps, consumers who think they're "voting"), but they're bogus nonetheless. Not rigged, exactly, in that the sponsors do not know in advance who is going to "win," but riggable if you've got the wherewithall to marshall an army of fans.

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Let Them Eat Wax

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Thursday September 09, 2010 · 5:05 PM PDT

2010/09/09 · 17:05

How to eat, what to eat: it's the new question of our time.

Perhaps we have become overly introspective and fearful in this Internet age? We wash our hands with germicidal soap, only to learn that the antibacterial chemical triclosan penetrates the skin and messes with our endocrine system. We buy "fat-free" half & half. made with corn syrup solids, sugar, and carageenan. Carnuba wax, used for polishing cars when we were kids; is in today's processed foods by the ton.

But this diary isn't about processed food, it's about serious environmental threats to our food supply, one by land and two by sea.

The first, BP's recently capped underwater gusher, devastated the Gulf of Mexico's fishing industry. The second, a proposed open-pit mine in Alaska, could extinguish the salmon run in Bristol Bay. And the third, a vast heap of nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, threatens eastern Washington's agricultural heartland and world-renowned vineyards.

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Saturday August 21, 2010 · 11:17 AM PDT

2010/08/21 · 11:17

Disillusioned students are speaking out against for-profit schools offering advanced degrees in culinary arts and other disciplines, and lawmakers are taking on the Wall Street bankers who are profiting.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 5:24 PM PDT

2008/09/19 · 17:24

I normally don't write about politics, I write about food. But maybe we can look at the world the way our Prez and his party's candidates for Next Prez do: a moralistic view of the universe, good versus evil.

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