NICOTINE PACIFIER
The displaced and ubiquitous huddled souls of this country's Smokers' ghettos take heart! The SuperSmoker will send the taste and nicotine of a four cigarettes into your gullet without flame or smoke. And, if you're still hungry, eat your MEAT CARD.
(Suggested by TECHCRUNCH)

Country Watch: France | F is for French Fry

LUNCH AS A TEACHING TOOL
France and Japan use school meals as an educational tool to instill proper eating habits and good manners. The French government, recognizing that students only eat one meal each day at school, emphasize that the purpose of the meal is to "assure an elementary formation of taste" and to help provide nutrition education. Lunches should incorporate lessons on the vocabulary of taste, regional specialties, food preparation techniques and culinary heritage, the government suggests, adding that the midday meal "is much more than nutrients and calories."
(Suggested by ALTERNET)

DOA: LIBERAL GOPers
Only twice since the Civil War have both U.S. senators from Pennsylvania been Democrats. If you knew that you'd understand just how far the Republican Party has fallen in its ancestral homeland. Liberal to moderate Northeastern Republicans once were as much a part of the political landscape as today's liberals from Massachusetts. Now, they live mostly in the history books. Que lastima.
(CNN, suggested by ALTERNET)

Caught on Tape: Military Officials at Bagram Urge U.S. Soldiers to Evangelize in Afghanistan | War on Iraq | AlterNet

"HEAD HUNTING" FOR JESUS?
A new Al Jazeera video purports to show U.S. military forces in Afghanistan being instructed to 'hunt people for Jesus' as they spread Christianity to the Muslim population. Trying to convert Muslims to another faith is a crime in Afghanistan. The fact that the video footage is being broadcast guarantees that it will be seen throughout the Muslim world and will more credence to the perception that the U.S. neo-crusader forces are engaging in a war on Islam.
(ALTERNET)