The Current Fast Food That We Have

The Federal Government Has More Power To Recall A Defective Stuffed Animal Who's Little Glass Eye May Fall Off Than To Recall Contaminated Ground Beef That Could Sicken Or Even Kill Hundreds If Not Thousands Of People. The Meat-packing Industry Is So Powerful That It's Managed To Prevent The Government From Having This Basic Power Of Recalling A Defective Product.

There's Been A Growing Effort To Kick Soda Out Of The Schools. And Governors As Different As Arnold Schwarzenegger In California And Mike Huckabee In Arkansas Have Worked Hard To Get Soda And Junk Food Out Of Their State Schools, Which Is Good.

The History Of The Twentieth Century Was Dominated By The Struggle Against Totalitarian Systems Of State Power. The Twenty-first Will No Doubt Be Marked By A Struggle To Curtail Excessive Corporate Power.

Marijuana Gives Rise To Insanity -- Not In Its Users But In The Policies Directed Against It. A Nation That Sentences The Possessor Of A Single Joint To Life Imprisonment Without Parole But Sets A Murderer Free After Perhaps Six Years Is In The Grips Of A Deep Psychosis.

Mcdonald's Has Been Extraordinary At Site Selection; It Was A Pioneer In Studying The Best Places For Retail Locations. One Of The Things It Did Is Study Very Carefully Where Sprawl Was Headed.