Conservative Donnybrook

Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has announced that she will be boycotting the 2008 Summer Olympics. As we all know the games are being held in Bejing this year. China has grown into a world superpower, and legitimate threat to the United States, on the blood and torture of her citizens. Between the countless human rights abuses and the persecution of the Catholic Church in China, just to name a few, China should not be given the international stage of the Olympics as if it were any other peace abiding democracy that respects individual human dignity. It may too much to ask for that an entire country boycott the games (although I certainly hope someone has the stones) but I can hope that more world leader choose not to attend the event.

Good news for cheeseburger lovers. A new study conducted in Japan concludes that people with low levels of LDL cholesterol (the so-called “bad cholesterol”) are more likely to die than those who have high LDL levels. In the end, as Willmoore has pointed out before, science is an evolving art.

Feel free to order the double, the triple, or throw caution to the wind and double the triple with cheese. Might as well get bacon on that. Special sauce? You bet! Oooh, and chili cheese tater tots.

In short, it appears the fast food restaurants are our friends. They only want us to be healthy and long-lived. After all, it’s good business.