Junk food science

That’s one for the nanny state: A new study shows evidence that state laws that limit access to junk food and soft drinks in public schools may be having a positive effect on childhood obesity.

We’re not going to argue with science, but we do think the researchers may be overlooking the potential for aerobic exercise in giving the snack food machine a good hard elbow to dislodge a stuck Snickers bar.

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They not only cheating on diets, apparently: Kids were quick to pick up on the Internet as a source of cut-and-paste essays and quiz answers via cellphone, but teachers are finding it just as easy to uncover plagiarism and cheating. Entering suspicious text into Google has foiled more than a few youthful plagiarists.

Take it from your Uncle Buzz, kids; the key to writing that eight-page report on the Monroe Doctrine is to do your own work. And use very wide margins and 14-point type.

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And now for something completely different: Great Britain squeezed out every bit of English pop culture it could call upon as it closed out the 2012 Summer Olympics with a show that included the Spice Girls, The Who and a nod to John Lennon.

But as a Monty Python fan, we would have liked to have seen the Olympic flame extinguished to the tune of a Sousa march by a large foot.

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