Sometimes a story comes across my desk that demands a response.

This week a Yahoo blogger posted "College Majors That Are Useless," with agriculture topping the list of five majors, followed by horticulture and animal science.

Really?

While I'm hesitant to give the list more credibility than...

Let's be honest: when we see a severely obese person at the all-you-can-eat buffet, we can't help feeling a twinge of self-righteousness. "Why doesn't that person just stop eating so much? He or she must be putting away a ton of food every day to be so fat."

In...

While many Americans are worrying about not gaining weight during the holiday season, one-sixth of our planet's population is in danger of malnutrition, not obesity. As the U.N. World Food Program recently reported, more than a billion people do not get enough food to be healthy. Even more alarmingly, as...