3 Op-Eds in Today's NYT: Food, Financial Folly, and Foreign Policy.

Nick Kristoff on Swine and MRSA. I think he raises good points about the industrialization of the food chain and the pumping of animals--pigs in this case--with antibiotics. His piece contributes to the literature on this topic, which is well covered by Mark Bittman, Marion Nestle, and, of course, Michael Pollan. This article sits well after eating pork tacos for dinner the past few nights.

William Cohan on the myth of an unpredictable financial tsunami. Here's what you need to know: "Can it possibly be true that veteran Wall Street executives got all that money but were clueless about the risks they had exposed their firms to in the process? In fact, although they have not chosen to admit it, many of these top bankers, as well as Stan O’Neal, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch (who was handed $161.5 million when he “retired” in late 2007) made decision after decision, year after year, that turned their firms into houses of cards."

Theodor Postol on how his conceptual missile defense shield is supa dupa. While proposing what appears to be a feasible system to prevent North Korean or Iranian ICBMS, I think he takes the European missile defense bases at face value and upholds the belief that they are focused solely at rogue states.