The latest developments to make me raise my tiny fists at the man:
1: Homeland security warning puzzles almanac publishers. This is ridiculous. Now people carrying almanacs are to be regarded with suspicion? I don’t even want to think of what might be next, especially as I re-read Fahrenheit 451 not too long ago. But remarkably rich, I find, is that part of Tom Ridge’s own department is tasked by congress with providing the information in those suspect almanacs. *snicker*
2: I don’t know how I missed this story last month…but the husband gave me the heads up last night. The Federal Department of Health and Human Services has been getting their act together, and working on a pro-breastfeeding advertising campaign. Unfortunately the highly regarded American Academy of Pediatrics seems to be in the pocket of corporate interests. Their newly installed president voiced concern about the campaign “immediately after aggressive, personal lobbying by representatives of one of the AAP’s biggest financial contributors, the $3 billion U.S. infant formula industry.” According to pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon: “the AAP leadership has weakened and emasculated (the ads) to suit the manufacturers of formula, and as a result of their craven disregard for America’s babies and families, more infants will get sick and die each year. I wish that this greedy, immoral, reprehensible act could be met with criminal charges.” I couldn’t agree more. Ugh, this makes me spitting mad.