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"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life: violence and committee meetings."

The AP is reporting that another as-yet unnamed Guantanamo Bay detainee has killed himself.  From the article: "Defense attorneys said the death was likely an act of desperation at a prison camp where detainees are denied access to U.S. civilian courts and isolated in their cells for up to 22 hours a day.  'You have five and a half years of desperation there with no legal way out,' said Michael Ratner, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. 'Sadly, it leads to people being so desperate they take their own lives.' … The former commander of the detention facilities, Navy Rear Adm. Harry Harris, described those suicides as acts of 'asymmetric warfare' - an effort to increase condemnation of the prison."

From a Christian perspective, there's a lot to condemn.

"Just because you know something that someone else doesn't, doesn't make that person an idiot - thinking everyone should know it, however, might make you one."

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."

Where do politics, fitness, and your local grocery store meet?  In the farm bill that Congress reviews and renews every five years.  It's up for renewal during this Congressional year, but it is not the unimportant snorex that most urbanites might think.

Michael Pollan wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine that explains how the farm bill has far-reaching consequences, from the prices at your grocery store, to the raging obesity in our society, the sorry state of school lunches, immigration, and foreign policy.  It's time for us to stop letting the status quo continue unchallenged, if for no other reason than the ridiculous situation the status quo represents.