Wednesday Linkage

Why in the world is MSNBC treating John Ziegler as someone who has something important to say? Ugh.

Working at a med pot shop? You're a "budtender"

A Cure for Garlic Breath

Swiss government produces extra small condoms for boys as young as 12

St. Petersburg Times: Once a model for new breed of Republican, Crist now model for endangered Republican The governor who gave his final State of the State speech Tuesday night was remarkably different from the man who delivered his first formal address just three years ago.

Study: Food-borne illnesses cost US $152 billion

Key to marital bliss found: Bride must be cleverer, five years younger and from same background as groom

Too little, too much sleep ups belly fat

Washington Post: New formula to give fresh look at U.S. poverty The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether to revise the method that has been used to measure poverty for decades. The way poverty is defined is at once arcane and politically volatile, because the number of people who are considered poor has broad implications for the nation's economic self-image and the way billions of federal dollars are distributed for Medicaid, welfare, food stamps and other aid programs.