Graham Davis

From Mother Jones, “The Ex-Lax Fish” November/December 2009:

In 2004, Washington’s health department issued a bulletin on it, and the European Union mandates that escolar and its relatives be sold only in packaged form with health warnings. The fish is banned outright in Japan and Italy.

But a US Food and Drug Administration spokesperson told me that the agency has never considered banning escolar; it merely “requests” that seafood manufacturers and processors inform potential buyers and sellers of the “purgative effect.” Some high-end chefs claim the fish is harmless in appetizer-size portions, and it continues to be sold in tony restaurants from New York (Eric Ripert at Le Bernardin loves it) to San Francisco, with customers receiving no warning.

“She’s So Cold” from Emotional Rescue, 1980:

A Harris poll asked people in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the US to assess their prospects for the next 10 years in a number of areas.

The poll finds that Britons are not quite as gloomy about the prospects for the next decade as the French, who are markedly more pessimistic on a range of fronts than their counterparts in the European Union and the US. However, Britain is the regular runner-up to France.

Asked whether they were generally optimistic or pessimistic about the next decade, some 36 per cent of Britons said they were pessimistic – a figure higher than any other state except France, on 44 per cent.

(from: “Britons vie with French for pessimism,” Financial Times, 12/28/2009)

From the New York Post:

An Xbox marked the spot where a Bronx man stockpiled a treasure trove of pilfered electronics, police said.

Jeremiah Gilliam, 22, was caught after playing a stolen game console online — allowing cops in Pelham, where it was stolen, to trace the IP address to his grandmother’s address, cops said.

There, detectives found dozens of video games, laptops, and GPS devices believed to have been stolen from as many as 200 car break-ins and several home burglaries in Westchester County.

If only Apple could do this with iPods…

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Received this e-mail on the James Madison College listserv:

Spartans for Richardson Meeting

Where: 342 Case Hall
When: Wednesday at 9pm

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Really? Most qualified ever? (more…)

Oh! I didn’t know that!

After soliciting sex in a Minneapolis airport bathroom from an undercover cop:

While he was being interviewed about the incident, (Idaho Republican senator Larry) Craig gave police a business card showing that he is a U.S. senator. “What do you think about that?” Craig asked the officer, according to the police report obtained by Roll Call.