Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback

The top five stories worth reading from the week in worth-reading stories

Are corporate CEOs, by nature, sociopaths?

In economic news, the Chinese (read: our creditors) are worried that America has become a free-market banana republic.

The fertile crescent is going to disappear this century.

The food industry is fighting a three-cent soda tax despite our staggering obesity epidemic. The corporate media and insurance company puppets have hijacked the health care debate.

Is cooking the thing that makes us human? Also, food allergies get curiouser and curiouser.