Americans will eat 1 billion Peeps this Easter. A California lawmaker wants to change its ingredients

Peeps' psychedelic pink color is the best thing about the marshmallow treat, but a spoilsport state lawmaker wants to ban erythrosine, a food coloring known as Red No. 3 that's used to give Peeps their vibrant hue.

Erythrosine is linked to cancer and was banned from makeup more than 30 years, ago, according to AP. — Read the rest

10-year-old asks for a DNA test on a cookie allegedly bitten by Santa to prove if he's real or not

A 10-year-old girl from Cumberland, Rhode Island has a big question that she's hoping a DNA test will answer. Wanting to know if Santa Claus is real, she put a cookie he allegedly bit in a plastic baggy and sent it down to her local police department. — Read the rest

A comic book history of the Pinkerton Agency

Over at The Nib, Sam Wallman has created an illustrated history of the Pinkerton Agency — the original "private eyes," a nearly 200-year-old American corporation that essentially pioneered the privatization of domestic military intelligent services, most often weaponized against the working class. — Read the rest