It's gone too fat...I mean far

As read on Connecticut's THE HOUR online

BROOKFIELD (AP) -- A panel of arbitrators will recommend in June whether a Brookfield High School math teacher should be fired for asking an overweight student if he ate his homework.

Wonder if this exact kind of thing happened with the math teacher at Crested Butte Academy in the latter half of the last decade?

The rest of the article makes this dude out to be a complete a-hole - he is batting over .500 (18/32) for his career in terms of annual reported inappropriate incidents - but it is kind of amusing when the teacher flips the oldest homework excuse in the book on the student.

Toking el Reef

I bet Joakim Noah does. Why not? It really isn't a huge surprise but its always funny to see a picture of someone famous milling around in a bong shop ('80's parent!).
The scouting report says that Joakim is always good on the glass.

Chili Bomb

Sounds like something you'd order at Sizzler or Outback Steakhouse...or at a Chili's. But instead it's a legit weapon of war...or at least crowd control. This story is a little dated, but that doesn't change the fact that I came across it today. In an effort to reach out to our Indian fan base, I thought I'd shed light on the effective new weapon of the Indian Army. It appears that the fearless troops have begun to fill grenade casings with dust from the world's hottest chili - the bhut jolokia, native to Assam in northeast India. Chili/pepper hotness, I learned, is measured in Scoville heat units. The average Jalapeno scores a 10,000 on the Scoville scale. Not bad. Mexico's hottest pepper? The red savina scores a reputable 577,000. (Sidenote: does anyone else wonder if this ranking system is like Zimbabwe's currency: hyperinflated?). But the bhut jolokia? 1,001,304. Those last 1,304 units count just as much as the first 1,000,000. Trust me.

Check out the full story here.

Why Do Salads Cost So Much?

Great chart from Good Medicine (via the Atlantic) comparing the cost of a Big Mac to a salad. Why does rabbit food cost more than Angus Prime?

Subsidies

If you ever wonder why stuff we don't like happens so much, sometimes the answer is that we're paying people to do the wrong thing.

Whether it's pollution, obesity or sprawl, there are ill-conceived incentives and subsidies that drive much of the activity we want to prevent.