Thursday, May 29, 2014
Small turning point?
Spicy news:
The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday night to drop a public nuisance declaration and lawsuit against Huy Fong Foods, makers of Sriracha (suhr-AH'-chuh) hot sauce. The dual moves brought an effective end to the spicy-air dispute that had Sriracha devotees worried about future sauce shortages and had suitors including the state of Texas offering Huy Fong a friendlier home.An important victory for REAL BUSINESS and an important defeat for the "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" idiots who insist on having a tasteless world. A dead world. Smells may be annoying but most real business produces some kind of smell or annoyance. Banking is the least smelly and the most murderous of all industries. Even among types of physical pollution, the most harmful is usually the least smelly. I spent part of my childhood in Ponca, where crude oil was the Smell of Money. Continental and Cities Service refineries were south of town, and the wind nearly always carried their burnoff into the city. Nobody was harmed by the organic chemicals in the air, which were pretty much the same chemicals in hot sauce. In nearby Blackwell, a lead smelter produced no obvious smell, but it killed plants and animals and people. Wherever the wind carried the lead, you could see a gray barren zone. Moonscape. Nothing grew there. = = = = = Sidenote: The strangest thing about this Sriracha story is that no reporter has actually bothered to SMELL THE SMELL. I've heard and read dozens of stories, and none of them included an ACTUAL FUCKING OBSERVATION. Real journalism performs exactly one service. It places reporters in situations where ordinary people can't go because of expense or risk. The reporters OBSERVE what's happening in those places and REPORT on what they OBSERVE. This no longer occurs. Instead, journalism merely reads the same sources that any ordinary person can read, and filters them to create evil. ¶ 2:21 AM
