Milk BanditsSource: Toronto Life
At the back of any good cheese shop, there's a hidden stash: a few unmarked rinds stacked in the walk-in refrigerator or piled in a bin behind the cash register.
Thomas Frank: It's Judgment Day for McCain Source: Wall Street Journal
Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to "find out what went wrong" on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
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When it was revealed that Sen. Ted Kennedy's seizure was caused by a malignant brain tumor, I posted a short post on it, offering my prayers to him and his family. One of my readers asked an interesting question following that post. "Randy" wrote:

The Department of Interior is expected to make a decision this Thursday on whether or not to add the Polar Bear to the Endangered Species List; which the US Fish and Wildlife Service would then be responsible for enforcing.

Swift and Co. are facing a legal battle over its Muslim employees, at least 54 of them, wanting to pray on company time. But see, the federal government says, the company has to accommodate them, at company cost:
Lenient Rule Set for Rebuilding in New OrleansSource: The New York Times
A sign that we are actually interested in re-building New Orleans: Federal officials issued unexpectedly lenient guidelines on Wednesday for rebuilding the flood-damaged homes of New Orleans, potentially allowing tens of thousands of homeowners to return to their neighborhoods at