If you’ve been around a hundred years, I guess you have time to perfect your technique

—Alan Ball, on why vampires are good in bed

Governor Palin broke Alaskan state law publicly advocating against an initiative that would have protected salmon fisheries

The Clean Water Initiative was meant to limit the amount of arsenic that could be dumped in Alaska’s coastal waters, which would have protected salmon spawning ground. Instead, a giant gold and copper mining site will go into full operation.

The campaign to make high-fructose corn syrup palatable has begun. Make no mistake about it, this shit is evil. The environmental impact of producing this vile stuff (hydrochloric acid is often used in processing corn kernels into soda sugar) alone is reason to ban it, not to mention the fact that its widespread use has tracked almost step by step with a nationwide growth in obesity. But America’s corn growers – mostly giant multinationals, not folksy farmers in the heartland – saw what happened to partially hydrogenated soybean oil and have decided to get out in front. Smart, even if it decimates the American diet even further. My own personal corn syrup ban remains in effect. [via buzzfeed]

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Yes, the same ones I have of men wearing brassieres.

From news anchor to vice presidential candidate. Boom goes the dynamite.

I think [he’s] going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president.

—Karl Rove really understands how to pick a vice president

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100 things to eat before you die

At at least a few things (mmmm… fugu) that just might kill ya

Bansky in New Orleans