Hot off the Press: Stuck in transit edition

Here's another reason for me to visit Portland: the city has overtaken Munich as the world's beer capital: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-beer-20100530,0,767659.story.

This is the reason you don't automatically trust the private sector: "Urged to Cut Use, Salt Industry Fights Back": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/health/30salt.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1275246351-7X5Jg27WLE3vY8OLnxVfIg. Business interests are not always compatible with the public interest.

The German president (not the chancellor) resigned Monday for basically telling it like it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/world/europe/01germany.html.