... courtesy the rest of the government : To the list of hundreds of schools, hospitals, and community health centers that have received limited allocations of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, you can now add some of New York's largest employers. In the past week or so 13 companies, including Citigroup (C) and Goldman Sachs (GS), have begun receiving small quantities of the vaccine, according to city health authorities.... According to the city, Goldman has requested 5,300 doses. Obviously a much higher priority than schools, daycare facilities, nursing homes.... [h/t Waldo ]

I hope you visit Delaware Curmudgeon frequently, but if not, you certainly should not pass up her assessment of the raw political expediency exhibited by Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in endorsing the current farm bill . The next time somebody tells me about all the corporate welfare that the GOP pimps for, I'm going to refer them back to this. After all, what's the difference between Archer Daniels Midland and Shell Oil? (And while we're at it, Libertarians, let's recall that Bob Barr supports Saxby "I love farm subsidies for big agricultural corporations" Chambliss over Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley.)