stuff one sees on the internet

We tend to quote Michael Pollan's food rule "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" as our guide for what to ingest, but the "Eat this, not that" guys (David Zinczenko among others) suggest "If your food can go bad, it's good for you. If it can't go bad, it's bad for you." That's interesting, but contradicts some of their other advice (like not drinking milk from cows who were given rBST, which will still get sour if left out) and besides, sooner or later almost everything will get hard or taste rancid or something. Not the same as turning to compost in one's fridge, though, which may be what was meant.

My answer to this blog's question is maybe, but *my* question is "when did primary turn into a verb?"
http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/if-matt-damon-were-to-primary-barack.html

Alaska is big. That isn't actually something I learned today, but sometimes one gets reminded. Arthur is on the way back from Korea, and I've been following his Tokyo - Chicago flight on the little map on Flightaware.com. The first third of the 11+ hour trip was over some foreign places, but they're 7.7 miles above the Aleutians now, and it looks like almost the middle third of the whole journey will be above some portion of Alaska. The amount of the state we've seen is a small proportion, but the plane will cross over some of the places we've been. I have a fond memory of sitting next to Flo on the plane from Seattle to Anchorage in 2005, one of us spontaneously starting Michelle Shocked's famous song, and the two of us singing the whole thing together by heart (not loudly enough to bother the other passengers, I don't think).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg