Milk dud: Schools rule out chocolate

Personally, I agree with this concept. Yes, I let Gabriel drink chocolate milk, but he does it according to whether or not his mom and I let him.

If he got to choose, he would drink it all the time. So a little policing of his diet is not only a good thing, but also something I would expect of any school system I would send him to.

What really pissed me off though was the idiot parent at the end of the segment who apparently does ZERO positive food modeling with her kid. News flash: kids watch what YOU eat and follow accordingly. Which is why I’m so glad Gabriel chows on veggies and eats a pretty balanced diet all on his own.

For more on LA’s plan and some future food in the crosshairs, check out this story.

Weekly Address: Celebrating Father’s Day

What most of his detractors forget when they are calling the President some kind of Muslim, Kenyan, socialist destroyer of America is that he’s got kids.

He’s a father, and apparently a good one. And a much better man than those who yell epithets and cheer for someone to kill him solely because of the color of his skin.

Happy Father’s Day Mr. President and to all you other fathers trying to raise your kids to be good people.

Zero Degrees of Separation – Cooks Illustrated

Christopher Kimball is not only a food genius, he’s also keen on remembering the important things we insist on removing from modern life. Here he is lamenting that most of us know nothing of the sights, smells, and tastes of food on the vine and in the field.

Granted, I may not have as much nostalgia as he does for the smell of pig poop, but, yes, it is important to know how hard – and how beautiful – it is to get your food from the source. It might make folks appreciate and re-evaluate the difference between good food and the usual crap that is often served to us indifferently.

Punchline in Story of Bipedalism: Our Ancestors Stood Up to Fight | Humans, Evolution & Bipedalism | LiveScience

Apparently, humans only walk upright because it made us better fighters. Seems counter-intuitive given the knuckle-dragging bullies out there today.

Then again, given our proclivity to violence, it makes perfect sense. I mean, we wouldn’t have gotten to the moon without trying really, really hard to kill ourselves in new ways during World War II.