archive for January, 2008
The New York Times promotes vegetarianism at long last
I found it highly amusing to open The New York Times this weekend — ok, to browse the ‘Week In Review’ online — and discover an article enumerating the reasons not to eat meat.
I don’t have any disagreement with the content, neither on grounds of data nor ethics. My amusement stems from the simple […]
posted: January 28th, 2008 under farm share, food, nature, politics.
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Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
This is another book I’ve had for years and just now got around to reading. Prodigal Summer is a lovely novel, one of my favorites by Barbara Kingsolver. Before this book, the only novel of hers I really loved was The Poisonwood Bible; for me, that novel was in a different league than […]
posted: January 11th, 2008 under books, challenge 2007, nature, reviews.
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living in the future with XM radio
The phones are small and in your pockets. The music is beamed to your car from outer space. Sure, not all the music, but the music on XM radio is, which is kind of weird and fun at the same time. Not that we normally have XM radio, because we normally don’t […]
posted: January 4th, 2008 under music, travel.
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