I think "Department of all the Damn Gall" is an understatement.

AP:

The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators.

A report due out Monday from the Government Accountability Office also shows that the FDA has never pulled a drug off the market due to a lack of required follow-up about its actual benefits — even when such information is more than a decade overdue.

When pressed about that policy, agency officials said they have no plans to get more aggressive.

Popcorn is one of the essential elements of Constitutional restoration, consumed in vast quantities by those who abjure Cheetos as they would the Devil in an earlier time. But like anything else, you gotta watch yer ass in an day when corporatism owns the food chain:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Labor Department on Tuesday said it was increasing inspections to address potential health hazards to workers at plants that make microwave popcorn with butter flavorings that contain diacetyl.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's program will call for more inspections in places that make butter-flavor popcorn, a spokeswoman for the department said. Diacetyl is an artificial flavoring.

Nobody is saying you have to give up your microwave and go back to Jiffy-Pop (anybody remember that?) or finding one of those metal baskets used to pop it over an open fire. This one is easy--use non-flavored popcorn and add yer own butter!

How does that make you feel? My mind is open on this one, and I can see the arguments from both sides. I didn't know we were so sure of our cloning technologies and abilities that we could be 100% sure this is a safe development.

I am so fucking sick and tired of this. Is there no end? Is there a single Republican apointee in this administration who isn't in it to make more money illegally for themselves and corporations? What chaps my ass most is that this is also the guy who brought you the delay on the morning after pill. Christ. What I wouldn't give for one honest Republican who believed in small government and the rule of law. The truly sad part:

This is just wrong

WASHINGTON - A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.