For people who love bad news

Both the Gray Lady and the Boring Broadsheet featured bad news for fans of eating, right on the front page. Conspiracy? Usually, I would not bet against it, but this time it seems to be great minds owned by the same conglomerate thinking alike. First, in the Times, tattooed fruits. (SFW) Not Shifty Shellshock, but PLU codes etched into the skin of the fruit with lasers, rather than those stickers. The stickers are a PITA, it is true, but I have a hard time getting excited about this technology, somehow. They had something about this in the Bible:

Rev 13:16:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
(17)And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

If it shows up in the 13th chapter of Revelations, and Wal-Mart supports related technologies, I don't want it in my fruit salad.

In Boston, very sad news of the firebombing of El Oriental De Cuba, one of the few reliable spots in town for a real Cubano. Montrose stizz is what I'm talking about, not that 12 dollar thing around the corner at Chez Henri. If you have that kind of money to burn, leave the mojitos and the sandwiches for the law students, and  head up Mass Ave to Frank's and get yourself some steaks. No one was hurt, and the owner vows to have El Oriental open again ASAP. The bombing remains under investigation.