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We always love when the The Week In Review section of the Sunday Times clears a little space for cupcake coverage. Who knew the tiny cakes could cause such a stir.

The confection is so powerfully embedded in the national consciousness -- and palate --that its future is quite possibly the only cause to unite Texas Republicans and at least some left-wing foodies behind a singular mission: keep the cupcake safe from harm.

"I think the wholesale banning of parents' bringing cupcakes as a legal issue is over the top," said Rachel Kramer Bussel, a former sex columnist for The Village Voice who founded the Web site "Cupcakes Take the Cake" three years ago.

The Texas Legislature agreed, in spirit, when it passed the "Safe Cupcake Amendment," in 2005, in response to new federal child nutrition guidelines and lobbying from parents outraged by the schoolroom siege on cupcakes. [by SARAH KERSHAW, NYTimes.com]

If we were allowed to eat more cupcakes in our youth we probably wouldn't crave them as often as we do. Then again, we also wouldn't have created a weblog devoted to cakeheads.