While clicking around Flickr, I stumbled across something odd and enrapturing. It's called the "hot beef sundae" (which, surprisingly, is not a sexual term yet...though it should be).Sure it looks like a healthy snack, but what about its ingredients?Only at the Iowa State Fair – a Hot BEEF Sundae. It is comfort food at its finest – a bowl generously filled with hand-mashed buttery pot ...more.

People have spoken at length about how rising gas prices will affect this asshole who isn't me and that asshole who isn't me. But what about the poor small town gas station-owning assholes who aren't me?Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dia ...more.