30 April 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 30 Apr 2008 "This is a fantastic time to be farming." From food shortages to greenhouse emissions, the benefits of the government-fueled ethanol boom are hazy. Analysis: As crises pile up, Washington manages only to designate National Watermelon Month and National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day. Signs of the coming recession: a marked increase in sales of second-hand merchandise. High-minded principles can quickly run amok if your neighbor is an irritable Stalinist state on the brink of a food disaster. By serving rather than saving plants and animals once common to American kitchen, demand will offset their extinction. Video: Time-lapse photos of Brooklyn's blooming cherry blossoms. Prejudiced against pigeons? It's biobigotry. Op: Why the Kentucky Derby is a totally illogical sporting event; how to make a mint julep or seven. They can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Blame Soulja Boy, if you must. That never-fail vision of the future, the jet pack: Will it ever happen? Scientists studying absinthe's psychedelic properties find no magical hallucinogenic ingredient. Albert Hoffman, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD in 1938, dies at age 102.
