It is not reasonable how much I like bacon.  Sure, we all have plenty of foods we enjoy, but then there's that category of things we feel we were born to love.  Coke goes in that category for me, served in a tall glass over plenty of ice.  So did Chips Ahoy, until they monkeyed with the manufacturing process several years ago.  And so does bacon, served with scrambled eggs and toast, or put in a BLT next to pickles and a glass of sweet tea.

Why is there a place in my brain specially made to lo...
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On CNBC (the cable business news channel) a few weeks ago, the CEO of American International Group made his case for using taxpayer bailout money to pay bonuses to AIG's executives.  The situation is this: AIG, one of the world's largest insurance and financial services companies, got about $150 billion of the money that the federal government made available to help unfreeze credit markets.  AIG plans to pay back some of that money by selling some of its operations.  The CEO, Edward Liddy, ar...
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