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POPSGrieving Widow Seeks Compensation From White House "I just get paralyzed wondering how I'm going to raise my larvae for the next six days, alone, without any kind of support," she said. "Most days I just end up on the clung to the ceiling, numb and crying, eating a rancid bowl of Ben & Jerry's."
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POPSIt's Legal in Vermont Ben & Jerry's wins the Pro-Gay Marriage Sign of the Day award for this gem (spotted in a Cambridge, MA T-station). Yeah, they went there. LOL
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POPSInfographics: Organic Industry Structure Did you know that Odwalla is owned by Coke? Or that Naked Juice is owned by Pepsi? Spectrum Organics, Garden of Eden, Celestial Seasonings and others- owned by Heinz. Boca Foods and Back to Nature- owned by Kraft. Dagoba Chocolates- owned by Hershey. Morningstar Farms- owned by Kellogg. Horizon and White Wave - owned by Dean. Nature's Farm- owned by Tyson. Annie's Naturals- owned by Solera Capital. Maranatha- owned by American Capital Strat. Ltd. Power Bars- owned by Nestle. Seeds of Change- owned by M&M Mars.
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POPSCan i have the Barack Obama doll and ice cream? “I absolutely love the man.” The margins are sky-high: a T-shirt that costs between $5 and $7 will retail for $15 to $25. “There has never been a better time to be in this business,” he said. “My biggest concern is running out of merchandise. You can’t give Bush stuff away at the moment but anything with Obama’s picture on it is walking out of the store.” The market for Obama products, added Mr Warlick, has been worth as much as $250 million since the start of the campaign
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POPSConversation With an Alien With a faint whirring the flying saucer leaped above the roofs, hesitated for a few moments, and then disappeared among the stars, forever. I went back to my vegetarian imitation turkey, suddenly realizing that all the anger and the guilt that had been haunting me all day were gone - replaced with a sense of an accomplished mission. Come to think of it, I just saved a whole alien world from the corruptive American influence! It felt almost as good as when the US Forces withdrew from Vietnam and Somalia, or when we defeated Republicans in the midterm elections. I adjusted the electronic shiatsu massage pad on my couch and turned on CNN.
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POPSJelly Bellies more widely available *scratches head in puzzlement* Maybe it's because they're local (been on the factory tour a couple of times, myself), but having them more widely available certainly doesn't seem to have hurt sales around here. I have little patience with this kind of appeal to exclusivity and snobbery. Sure, if the quality has gone down as a result of the expansion (like it did with Ben & Jerry's), that's one thing. But "it's too easy to find them, too many people are buying them now, I don't want them anymore"? Bah.
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POPS Analyst Warns of $200/Barrel Oil* *One barrel of crude oil is 42 gallons (or $4.76 per gallon) In the Cato-at-Liberty blog post "Is There an Oil Price Bubble?" Cato senior fellow Jerry Taylor writes: "The most recent Fed actions to combat the deteriorating state of the macroeconomy added even more fuel to the oil price fire. With market actors increasingly convinced that the Fed is willing to entertain inflation in the course of injecting liquidity into the market, investors are looking for investments to hedge against inflation. And what do you know? Returns on commodities have historically been better during inflationary periods than during non-inflationary periods. Ben Bernanke thus sent another strong infusion of cash into commodity futures -- again, largely into oil and gas futures.
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POPSMonsanto's Udder Disgrace The milk labeling controversy - and other corporate practices of Monsanto - have been issues for years. For a while every time I saw my Senator, I would greet him with the same comment, "Hey Bernie, when are you going to do something about Monsanto?" Senator Bernie would shake his head and raise his hands in frustration. I often heard him say that no matter how bad you think things are in Washington, they are really much worse. While the Congress is distracted with growth hormones taken by sports figures, our farm animals are being abused with other hormones. Baseball players have a free choice. Cows don't. None of us have a choice. Not if Monsanto has anything to say about it and they do. Money talks.
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