Is bacon good for you? That depends... what time is it?
In a nation that apparently is producing more scientific research grants than paying jobs, the latest eye-opener is that eating bacon for breakfast might not be the death sentence that we have for so long been led to believe it is. Then again, all this subtly interpreted data could be upended and turned inside out next week, when bacon might again - by the same experts - be declared The Worst Thing Ever.
"Above all, there is the happy and holy custom of eating a heavy breakfast. I cannot imagine that Shakespeare began the day with rolls and coffee, like a Frenchman or a German. Surely he began with bacon or bloaters. In fact, a light bursts upon me; for the first time I see the real meaning of Mrs. Gallup and the Great Cipher. It is merely a mistake in the matter of a capital letter. I withdraw my objections; I accept everything; bacon did write Shakespeare. - G.K. Chesterton, The Riddle of the Ivy
(a tip of the slovenly, shapeless hat to Old World Swine reader M.B.)
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In more groundbreaking research, according to NPR, A major report out Wednesday says that many former foster kids have a tough time out on their own.
Who'd have thought?
(Seriously... pray for them, and all wards of the state)
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Now, a labor strike I can really get behind; The AP reports that workers at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen have walked off the job "after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites.".
My favorite detail;
Carlsberg's truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy — even though they are exempt from the new rules, Bekke said. The truck drivers are permitted to bring three beers from the canteen because they often don't have time to have lunch there.
A steady intake of beer throughout the work day is not as strange as might be supposed;
Those great men — Marlowe and Jonson, Shakespeare, and Spenser before him — drank beer at rising, and tamed it with a little bread.- Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome
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