Wednesday evening roundup

Spot-on.

And while we're on the topic, here's an oldie but goodie.

It's funny how people trying to sell you stuff will spin it; it's even funnier that often, we buy it.

On a quasi-related note, more on the topic of faux-populism in the way of screwing over the poor by crying elitism in the face of policies and initiatives that would actually benefit low-income people.

Grist has a number of posts on the highjacking of the locavore movement, in the form, for example, of Lay's potato chips as advertising themselves as local food in CA because the potatoes were grown there. Well, the other day in the store, I saw peaches labeled as "locally grown." In Georgia.