Ketchin up with the kultural kampfire

Can’t ketch up with anything anymore, but now I see that Justin Case has written another cool post, so I can relax. At least a little.
You really should read Justin’s well-researched fisking of Paul Ehrlich too, if you haven’t already. And if you have, read it again, because I don’t think it’s gotten the attention it deserves.
I am relieved that my concerns about elitism in the national national security crowd seem to have been justified: “Some users are more equal than others.” (Indeed! But ketch-up without bergers burgers? I thought they always came went together.)
I don’t know how much time I’ll have for posting today, so I’m leaving a few cooked edibles; ketch up or not!
Susie at Practical Penumbra has done an excellent job with this week’s Bonfire of the Vanities, so go read it! Otherwise, you’ll never learn about these:

I won’t spoil the rest, but Susie’s posts — be they edible, healing, taxing, or mushy — make this week’s fire a very unextinguishable one!
I better stop here, cause I’m getting all b-u-r-n-e-d out, and I need to save my strength!
Oh, and be sure to read this week’s Carnival of the Vanities. (I can only spread so much ketch up in one post!)