X-Message-Number: 30768 From: "Will Knot" <> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 01:14:16 -0500 Subject: Stodolsky Rides Again --_----------=_1211782456253004 Content-Disposition: inline In another CryoNet post today, Stodolsky writes: "Social policy in the US has led to 'food deserts', where most vegetables are not readily available. While this primarily effects the poor, a change in policy would likely lead to a dramatic changes in..." He then goes on to draw conclusions based on this sordid premise, which are largely irrelevant to the real world, but I digress. The two grammar errors in the above quote speak well enough to this person's scholarship abilities, but let's look at the real issue here: vegetables. Think cans, Dave. Cans. And if the inner city "poor" don't have enough brains to drive each month to buy enough canned food at a Wal-mart or some such, to last them until the next (heck, they get food stamps), well there is always Natural Selection. They could even buy half a month's worth of most fresh ones, too. The hard reality is that many of them are too busy smoking crack, to eat. Many areas of the real "deserts" in the western part of the N American continent, are dozens of miles from any grocery store. The smart people there drive every some days to do their shopping. The dumb ones die. Hail Darwin. -- Mail.com Autos- Powered by Oncars.com: Drive By Today! http://www.oncars.com --_----------=_1211782456253004 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30768