Keep On Truckin', No. 65,536

Someone must have done a cover of "Keep On Truckin'" but it doesn't seem to have turned up among the usual suspects...

• The old shell game (yes, the Koch Brothers.  Again.  Making Howard Hughes look sociable and reasonable) only with actual shells.

  The Association for American Innovation will likely help the Kochs and their allies continue avoiding transparency in political spending.
  
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  The Association is organized under Section 501(c)(6) of the tax code, setting it apart from many of the dark money groups active in the 2010 and 2012 elections, like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS or Americans for Prosperity, which are organized as 501(c)(4) "social welfare" nonprofits.
  
  Section 501(c)(6) is reserved for business leagues like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or trade associations like the pharmaceutical lobby PhRMA; but unlike those groups, there is little evidence the Association exists to advance the interests of any particular trade or industry.

  Oh, I dunno...  (PR Watch, via AlterNet)
• Assata Shakur (not Tupac's mother; different first name and history) has been moved to the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list.  (She's been in Cuba for nearly 30 years.  This is not a secret.)
• "Food, Foodborne Illness, and Antibiotic Resistance in Food" because this is what you want to read over dinner.

  This E[nviromental] W[orking] G[roup] report is notable for another reason: The Food and Drug Administration decided to scold the group for it. In a really unusual move, the agency (which oversees the portion of NARMS that deals with retail meat) issued a press release criticizing EWG’s analysis and calling it “inaccurate and alarmist.” The press release was derided by food policy bloggers and analysts; in one stinging reaction, author and NYU professor Marion Nestle said: “The FDA’s current stance on use of animal antibiotics appears to be more about protecting the meat industry than about protecting public health.

  Why it matters:

  Because foodborne illness is so widespread, and so potentially deadly. The CDC recently held its annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference, which serves as an informal graduation ceremony for members of its disease-detective corps. Among the research presented, there was this little-noticed paper by EIS officer Dr. Von Nguyen, analyzing the impact of foodborne outbreaks which cross state borders. These outbreaks are becoming more common, because food production and distribution has become so complex — but because the victims are so far apart, linking cases together is challenging. Nevertheless, doing the footwork to track foodborne illness across the miles is critical, Nguyen said: “These outbreaks represented only 1 percent of foodborne disease outbreaks over the last decade; however, they accounted for 5 percent of outbreak-related illnesses, 21 percent of hospitalizations, and 26 percent of deaths.”

Bon appetit!