Don’t read this at lunchtime. From the U.S. General Accounting Office Reports and Testimony (July 1990): “FDA and USDA inspectors do not test trucks for bacterial or chemical residues that may remain in a vehicle after it has hauled garbage because the test would be too costly, complex, and time-consuming and because they have found no instances of contamination from cross-hauling. If a truck looks, smells, and feels clean, inspectors consider it safe for food transport.” Now how am I gonna convince my kids to wash their hands?
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Except free speech, Henry. Right-wing suburban congressman Henry Hyde roused the rabble August 28 at the American Legion convention by describing the controversy over flag burning as a war between “Those who love our country, love what it stands for” and “those who despise America, despise every traditional ideal that has made America unique in the history of the world” (American Legion News Service, September 17).
Dispatches from the Gulf (between image and reality). “Once, defense contracts were a way of defending the citizens in military engagements,” writes the editor of the 48th Ward Progressive Network News (September 1990). “This military engagement looks like an attempt to defend the military contracts against the citizens. (For the record, our defense budget is $300 billion. Iraq’s GNP– which measures all purchases, private and governmental–is under $40 billion.)”
Dept. of mild understatement, from people trying to sell a hair restorer: “We have proof now that there’s a slight negative bias associated with balding in our society. For the most part, it’s unconscious. Although it’s not as strong as sexism or racism…”
