Tuesday evening roundup

How to cede power gracefully.

Assange blames the Jews (including Jews by association).

I am taking deep breaths as I type because Jennifer LaRue Huget's guide to whole grains makes my head want to explode.

First of all, she encourages people to consume refined grains as half their grain consumption because, I $hit you not, "Whole grains are not enriched, so if you replaced all your refined grains with whole ones, you'd need to get those nutrients elsewhere, perhaps through dietary supplements."

Are you F*ING KIDDING ME?? Get your f*ing nutrients from real food, including whole grains. The idea of encouraging refined grains because they're enriched--this coming from a nutrition writer--is absurd to the point where I think she should resign.

Less offensive but equally ignorant: soba is not actually whole grain; it's usually made with over 70% refined wheat and only 30% buckwheat. It is difficult and expensive to find 100% buckwheat soba.

She didn't pull this bull$hit from the guidelines themselves, which say nothing of the sort:

At least half of recommended total grain intake should be whole grains. (See Chapter 5 for specific information and recommendations.) Less than 5 percent of Americans consume the minimum recom-mended amount of whole grains, which for many is about 3 ounce-equivalents per day. On average, Americans eat less than 1 ounce-equivalent of whole grains per day.

Americans should aim to replace many refined-grain foods with whole-grain foods that are in their nutrient-dense forms to keep total calorie intake within limits. When refined grains are eaten, they should be enriched. Individuals may choose to consume more than half of their grains as whole grains. To ensure nutrient adequacy, individuals who consume all of their grains as whole grains should include some that have been fortified with folic acid, such as some ready-to-eat whole-grain cereals.

That's fair enough; JLRH's interpretation is most definitely not.

More food news: factory farm findings to gross you out.

Why the hating on cyclists when we're great for the economy in the long run.