The price of milk is up 50 per cent over last year. But heck, who expected that the price of "mystery meat" would go through the roof? Accordingly school lunch programs will now feed children bread and water. I kid you not. See today’s Today Show online. A school lunch official says that they are switching to flour products.
This schoolroom diet will of course be a good preparation for "later life" in this haunted nation.
Last night here in Iowa a "hog containment" facility exploded. Officials are unsure what caused the accident. I’m no agriculture wonk, but I can spell "methane". I prefer to think of this story in Dickensian terms: the hogs simply combusted spontaneously, so terrible was their lot.
American Airlines is back in the air today. Passengers can buy micro-packets of pretzels for 10 bucks. Correct change required.
Off now to garner faith among imaginary flowers…
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Once you’ve classified ketchup as a vegetable for school lunch purposes, as they did during the Reagan administration, everything becomes highly nutritious.
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School lunches are devoid of nutrition even in wealthy districts. For instance, at my son’s public school in an affluent town the food served is horrible and devoid of nutritional value. The choices include hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and chicken fingers. Soda machines abound. The only good thing about the food is that it is so bad my son hates to eat it. Thus when he misbehaves or gets poor grades I threaten to send him to school without a home made lunch. This works every time.
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Unfortunately, free lunches and breakfasts are the only decent nutrition some kids get. No protein is a very bad idea. Behavioral issues in the short term, malnutrition in the not-much-longer term.
I would have thought the hogs had to drink a bunch of alcohol first to spontaneously combust.
Micropackets–lol! It’s true.
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