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Agrivation

Posted on March 9, 2014 21 Comments

I have been working all week on an intense project and ideas for this particular topic have been swirling through my head. Sometimes they gel into a cogent statement, buttressed by facts from all the sources that spin past me each day and at other times, they just drop into the pool of ideas that […]

Dis-Sparity

Posted on November 27, 2013 8 Comments

This is going to be a brief post, just to make sure I don’t fall off the wagon during this busy part of the year. For one thing, I have been involved in completing a massive and very time consuming as well as complicated project that I hope to be done with tomorrow. For another, […]

Habitus corpus

Posted on October 29, 2013 8 Comments

There are a lot of reasons to avoid developing some habits, but I think there is a place for establishing routines or conventions that confer greater peace of mind. In fact, I love creating (flexible) structure in my life. So, in the interest of describing rather than prescribing … Most of us have far more […]

POVerty and the shadowy TPP

Posted on September 28, 2013 6 Comments

I have been reflecting on the American way of life recently. All the tumult over the Affordable Care Act has dredged up a great deal of emotion, mostly fear, and of course as I have said repeatedly in past posts here, stoked by international as well as national corporate interests. There are corporations, backed by […]

Slimed

Posted on September 14, 2013 8 Comments

Now, even though you all know I am a vegan (right?) … This is not to discuss the merits or drawbacks of an omnivorous or herbivorous diet. But what do we (in the royal sense) think of this? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/09/pink-slime-goes-back-to-school.html Here is my take. First of all, the name says something to me. Do we really […]