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What a total crock - These fuggin idiots drive me nuts. They have no idea what they're talking about.

Personally, I'd like to string these people up on a dark night.

Social engineers: they know what's best for you. Because they're smarter and they care more.

I stopped eating hot dogs when I found out how they were made; not because eating one or two a week will kill you! Meat and cereal fillers are combned with water into some disgusting kind of soup that resembles extra thick Pepto-Bismol. I do eat sausages as long as I can see how they are made in the butcher area behind the glass in a local grocery store. They put the relatively lean meat into a grinder directly into the casings - no other crap goes in. You see whats going in. With hot dogs, those are all mass produced and you have no idea WTF they are putting in there.

Since theres no open thread for today...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_re_us/harvard_police_race

"Faust cited an incident earlier this month when campus police confronted a person using tools to remove a lock from a bicycle. She said the person was a summer employee who owned the bike and was trying to cut the lock because the key had broken. The Boston Globe reported that the person, whom Faust did not identify, was a black high school student from Boston.

The Globe said black students and faculty protested last year after police interrupted a campus field day sponsored by two black student groups, asking if they had a right to be there. The newspaper said in 2004, police stopped a prominent black Harvard professor as he was walking to his office because they mistook him for a robbery suspect."

So the campus cops stop a guy trying to remove a bike lock and they shouldnt investigate? This same goof would probably whine about cops doing nothing if they stood there and watched as his his bicycle was stolen. Mistaken identity is racial profiling? Cops asking questions? Now if they beat them up with night sticks or tasered them without asking any questions, ok. All the Harvard cops should simply walk off the job. Theres a shortage of security and police.

Seeing a tubular object entering the mouth of Michael I've-Got-a-Face-Like-a-Pig Moore seems so natural somehow.

Nothing wrong with eating hotdogs. It is just meat and the usual added stuff you find in most all other prepared foods. To the person aabove who made the soupy Pepto comment: that paste is just food, meat and grains. You want to know what else is in there, read the label. You sound like a little kid who just found out that milk comes from a cow.

Just the newest scare tactic of the anti-meat eaters. Remember the last one? "Ewwwwwww. Hotdogs are made out of worms!"

It's pretty much a 'scientific consensus' that if you live long enough life will give you cancer. Not eating hot dogs likely won't change this.

As you live longer, your odds of getting cancer go up, due to normal cell mutation.

So maybe the thing with hot dogs is they make you live longer.

According to this website (http://coloncancer.about.com/od/cancerresearch/a/02092007.htm) the incidence of colon cancer in children is one in 5 million. This would make finding a child with colon cancer to star in the ad difficult -- so the sponsors didn't bother, as the link in the blog post makes plain. As Mark Twain said, "Why does God let this sort of thing go on -- with lightning so cheap?"

"the likelihood is on the order of a 1% risk "

For goodness sakes the error spread in the study has to be greater than that! So in other words, a study with no correlation whatsoever with hotdogs is the reason to ban hotdogs...??? Oh yeah, one more thing - correlation is not proof of causation. Duh! How about the fact that 100% of the people who got colon cancer were breathing oxygen? We'd better put a stop that, it's a 100% correlation with colon cancer.

Hey, oxygen causes cancer.

Oxygen radicals generated by aerobic metabolism (e.g., superoxide and hydroxyl radicals) cause genetic lesions that can activate oncogenes. Next stop: cancer.

So what do these clowns propose to do about that?

Hot dogs? Seriously? Hot dogs? They want to ban hot dogs? What about apple pie? Leads to obesity. Baseball? Dangerous! Baseball to the head could kill you. Fosters competetion, which is bad for self-esteem. Need to ban that, too.

Oh, and the concept of "mother" makes certain people uncomfortable. Perhaps we ought to ban that, too.

Sometimes, I think these folks are just coming up with outrageous things to get blogosphere mindshare. Try to get a few lines in the AP. Sometimes I think it's more PR and than serious issue advocacy. Good Lord knows, it's not serious science.

Why not get uber-vegan Linda McCartney to be their celebrity spokesman? Oops ... died of cancer. What the hey, Steve Jobs is still alive and healthy, right?