Brett Favre (sniff) Calls It A (sniff) Career (Blogcritics.org) As a quarterback, he has done everything. I'd retire too. I'd probably cry, too. Much like we all predicted, the news impacted the city of Green Bay worse than mad cow disease. Brett Favre will not play football for the Green Bay Packers next year, or any year after that. He's just as sad as you are, Wisconsin.Favre's press conference on Thursday afternoon was just as teary-eyed as one might ... [News Source]

Canadian consumers wary of food safety: focus groups. Consumer confidence in the safety of Canada's food supply is "moderate and precarious," concludes a study commissioned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. [News Source]

Frederick Seitz dies. Frederick Seitz, a renowned physicist who became a prominent skeptic on the issue of global warming, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 96 and lived in Key West, Fla. [News Source]

Captive and wild elk would be kept apart under rules. The state agency that regulates elk breeding plans to review several proposed rule changes — including requiring elk to be contained behind two rows of fencing. The requirement is intended to prevent transmission of chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis between captive and wild elk. [News Source]