Saturday, June 5, 2004

Must be one of those don't-know-what-you-don't-know things Rummy talks about

The Bilderberg Group is this archsecret cabal that includes Bill & Melinda Gates, Ralph Reed, John Edwards and an enormous list of other notables. And it's meting in Italy today. It also has a devout antagonist in this site here.

If it weren't so full of eyeballs from the tops of corporate and government pyramids, I might find it scary. As it is, the one thing we can be sure about is that the food there is probably pretty damn good.

Thanks to Sheila for the link. (I think when I'm done with it, I'm turning the Web over to Sheila.)

Never met a ficient they didn't like

Meta-Efficient is a guide to the most efficient things in the world. Thanks to Sheila (whose blog is one of the best there is) for the pointer.

I get hungry just reading about it.

Says here,

Junk food, sugary drinks and beer make up nearly one-third of the calories adult Americans consume daily...

Soft drinks and pastries led the top 10 foods contributing the most calories to the American diet. Sodas alone contributed 7.1 percent of the total calories in the U.S. population. Foods such as hamburgers, pizza and potato chips rounded out the top five food items. Beer came in ninth on the list, just ahead of french fries and fried potatoes.

Thanks to Rebecca for the pointer.