February 2008

From Time.com: Are Plastic Baby Bottles Harmful?

If a new report is to be believed, an entire generation of children has grown up drinking a toxic chemical from their earliest months: bisphenol A. A consortium of North American environmental and health groups released a paper Thursday showing that many major-brand baby bottles leach bisphenol A, and is now calling for a moratorium on the use of the compound — used to make polycarbonate plastic — in food and beverage containers.

More scary stuff to think about for parents to be.  This is like the previous story about sugar sugar substitutes.  Are all the products and chemicals that we create benign?  Are there real potential risks or is this something our bodies can cope with and is no big deal.  It’s interesting because we really don’t know.

From Time.com: Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat?

What they mean is that like Pavlov’s dog, trained to salivate at the sound of a bell, animals are similarly trained to anticipate lots of calories when they taste something sweet — in nature, sweet foods are usually loaded with calories. When an animal eats a saccharin-flavored food with no calories, however — disrupting the sweetness and calorie link — the animal tends to eat more and gain more weight, the new study shows.

Our bodies are experiments for all sorts of chemicals that we’ve created.  But, how much do we really know about what we’re eating.  The long term impacts of eating processed foods are just beginning to show themselves and we may not like what we’re finding.

From BBC World: Kilmer ‘will voice’ Knight Rider

I was wondering why Val Kilmer would take the job as the voice of KITT on the kind of bad looking Knight Rider remake, but it looks like the “Iceman” has let himself go a little.

From CNN.com: Huckabee takes Kansas, CNN projects

This race is over, but I’m only blogging about this because I like the following Huckabee quote:

“I know the pundits, and I know what they say: The math doesn’t work out,” Huckabee said Saturday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “Well, I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles. And I still believe in those, too.”

This is a great video, almost brought a tear to my eye.  For the first time in a long time I feel someone in politics that pulls me in and makes me want to do more.  That there’s hope for American and that the job is not too big for all of us if we set our goal to do it.

From TheStar.com: Can Obama ride the wave?

Theodore Sorensen, the great JFK speechwriter who backs Obama, says words can move an electorate and Clinton seems not to realize “the important quality in a presidency of being able to move, arouse, inspire, galvanize. Neither Congress nor the allies would pay any attention to you otherwise. Words still matter. You bet they do.”

From NYTimes.com: Bush Urges Conservatives to Rally Behind 2008 Nominee

“Four more years,” the audience chanted after Sen. Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, introduced him, and again during his speech. It was a striking contrast to the reception Mr. McCain received from the same audience the day before, when he was jeered and booed by some.

Four more years?  Talk about drinking some Kool Aid.  I think the one more year that Bush has is one year too many!  He’s arguably going to go down as one of the worst presidents ever.  It’s hard to claim the title of worst president, since you’d pretty much have to cause a civil war in the United States to get that.

From men.style.com: Glenn O’Brien’s Style

An interesting article on the dressing styles of all of the ’08 Presidential Candidates.  Lots of hilarious pictures, especially the Hillary photos.

Plus a picture of Duncan Hunter.  You remember, Duncan Hunter who ran for president?  Oh.  Well, never mind.

From IESB.net: IESB Exclusive: G.I. Joe’s Cover Girl Revealed

After the success of Transformers, you had to figure a G.I. Joe movie was going to happen.  I’m not sure if this is going to be a serious movie or something seriously campy.  But either way, I think I’ll end up spending half the movie laughing my head off.  Especially when Cobra Commander hits the screen with his lisp and temper tantrums.