Last night, at the advanced screening of Food, Inc., the audience broke into cheers and boos to punctuate the filmmakers’ more salient points about what has gone wrong with our food system. Sure, the documentary was preaching to the converted; it was a Viva los Farmers Markets! crowd at the E Street Cinema. But some revelations [...]

Don’t you just love it when you get your own anecdote to back up a news story?
Today, an unusual offer arrived in my inbox: a sales pitch for swine flu vaccine. All I’d have to do is send in my contact info. and a major credit card and the cure would arrive in the mail. [...]