I was reading a good article about George Pyle's ag book in Salon
"Raising Less Corn, More Hell" is dedicated to the memory of his father, who was raised on a Kansas farm, but Pyle is no sentimentalist when it comes to the fate of family farms. What the agricultural economy needs, he argues, is a truly free market -- not one kept afloat by federal ( Read more... )

It seems obligatory, especially given the number of relations I have in London, none of whom were injured. Senseless violence seems to be drawn to that island. My grandfather, as library administrator, helped rebuild the libraries in London after WWII. In WWII the senseless violence was far more senseless and far more violent. But now the enemy is ( Read more... )

It looks like the evil Larry Summers male conspiracy to give gals "the bad toys" has been debunked by monkeys!
His Brain, Her Brain

To address this question, Melissa Hines of City University London and Gerianne M. Alexander of Texas A&M University turned to monkeys, one of our closest animal cousins. The researchers presented a group of vervet ( Read more... )

So...there is this article in the Chicago Tribune today about cat hunting...
Fur flies in Wisconsin spat between hunters and cat lovers
Chicago Tribune (IL)
April 8, 2005
Author: John McCormick, Tribune staff reporter.Fluffy is in the cross hairs in Wisconsin and the fur is flying as cat lovers nationwide rally to try to defeat a proposal under ( Read more... )

Hahahahahahaha!
Marx & Friends in their own words

"The plentiful meat and milk diet among the Aryans and the Semites, and particularly the beneficial effects of these foods on the development of children, may, perhaps, explain the superior development of these two races ( Read more... )