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Friday, September 19, 2008

"Worse Than Russia"

Michael Blowhard, drink your heart out:  I found another raw milk production shut-down story, and it's got a local angle.  I agree with the tone set by the author, who sounds open-minded but unconvinced about the possible benefits of raw milk and the organic movement generally (in my case, call me a full-blown skeptic of organic).  Yes, the crack-down is way out of proportion to the crime.

I received this link from my co-worker Victor, who just within the last month has become, uh, involved with the co-op mentioned.  He's not the only one drinking the milk kool aid among my friends...and I've been very tempted to join myself.  This issue isn't going away anytime soon.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Raisin Brahms

Via The Standing Room via this is sippey:  the most wonderfully stoopid promotion of high culture by a big fat corporation, evar:



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Saturday, July 05, 2008

Shaped Like a Watermelon

Ooh, yes, I do hope they find a way to "boost" the "concentrations" in the "flesh."

Also from Instapundit, another romantic fool refuses to acknowledge that, if man were meant to fly, he'd be born with giant balloons.

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Friday, June 27, 2008

I Love Curry

Christianity Today speaks of curry with worshipful tones.   (Hat tip to A&LD; I hope this link didn't get Denis Dutton in trouble with his fellow skeptics.)

I love Indian food because it is perfect.  It's stews comfort me, and its spices bedazzle me.  It achieves the impossible contradiction:  it is exotic comfort food.

(And speaking of Denis Dutton, check out his screen saver image.)

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Monday, June 02, 2008

Spit-Take

The folks of the raw food movement must be spitting their expeller-pressed tomato juice all over their morning newspapers today:
"It appears that the greatest protective effect from tomatoes comes from rehydrating tomato powder into tomato paste," said Valeri Mossine, research assistant professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. "Processing of many edible plants through heating, grinding, mixing or drying dramatically increases their nutritional value and cancer-fighting potential."

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