Weekend Link Love: Fashionistas & A Picket Line, Om vs. Xanax, Pospartum Laws, A New Biofuel Source & the Target Backlash

A Wall Street Journal article delves into the debate surrounding New York Fashion Week and its move to Lincoln Center, where unions are fighting fashionistas. The fashion week folks want to choose workers for setup but the union for stagehands says their members usually get jobs for work on the premises. Fashion Week starts September [...]

Link Love: Tea Party tees, Preggers Diet, GE Babies, & A Facebook Scam

Genetically engineered babies. A new hormonal treatment is said to be able to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a genetic disorder that can interfere with the development of genitalia. The Los Angeles Times article writes:  “in severe cases, girls are born with male-like sexual organs although they usually have ovaries and a uterus.” The treatment is [...]

Hedgies Buy Alt Newspaper Company

Reporters and editors at one of the country’s main alternative news weekly publishers will now indirectly answer to a hedge fund, reports Associated Press. According to an August 25 report, Creative Loafing was acquired by New York hedge fund Atalaya Capital Management for $5 million at an auction. Creative Loafing was owned by the Eason family [...]

The Melamine Diaries What:Chinese companies are under legal attack over melamine contamination that has spread from milk to fish and home goods.

The Dirt:The American and European peoples ability to trust their government continues to dwindle, as they add agriculture to the growing list of regulatory failures, following the big one—finance. The crisis started in China in September and has escalated to a global situation by year’s end, with a legal battle ensuing in Mainland China just [...]