Category Archives: news items

And Another Thing…

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

(I can’t believe what’s just happened…no, scratch that; I can believe it, but it’s embarrassing as heck. I was flipping through one of my notebooks just now and I found a few paragraphs which should have been included in the … Continue reading →

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7 Foods You Should Never Eat (If You Can Afford It)

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

7 Foods You Should Never Eat, brought to you by the concerned people at Fox News. Subtext hunters like myself will readily gather from this article the knowledge that poor people often eat worse food than wealthier folks. But we … Continue reading →

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Well Said, Mr. Bruni

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Not that I’m a big TV watcher, but I too have noticed what Frank Bruni calls an “Unsavory Culinary Elitism” in the popular media. I’ve mentioned it here now and then, most recently in reference to the Brooklyn (really? Brooklyn?) homesteader … Continue reading →

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Spring Break: An Interlude

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

I’m on spring break from school right now. Part of me is preparing the game plan for the next quarter; part of me is getting ready for lots of warm-weather bike rides; and part of me is pondering our nation’s … Continue reading →

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G.M. to Shut Plant for Lack of Parts From Japan – NYTimes.com

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

G.M. to Shut Plant for Lack of Parts From Japan – NYTimes.com. Granting that this is rather far off-topic, and not making any light of the awful situation in Japan, the ripple effect of events in global trade is fascinating. … Continue reading →

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Greenwash Watch: A Second Skin for Bananas

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

I was going to move on from the green-washing; really, I was. Then I saw this from TreeHugger. Wha? Huh? Really? As if the carbon footprint and collateral damage from bananas weren’t bad enough, we’re going to individually wrap them … Continue reading →

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Green Wash, Part 3

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

Now for the grand finale in our trio of hypocrisy, the winner of both the Ironic Ad Award and the Giant Head-Scratcher Trophy: The mind simply reels. A loss for words ensues. Then, into the vacant brain creeps a bumper-sticker … Continue reading →

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Green Wash, Part 2

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

This was the ad that first caught my attention and got me thinking: “What are they trying to say here?” Some parsing of the copy is in order. ‘When does nature surprise you…’ well, since nature’s surprises are often in … Continue reading →

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The Perils of Urban Poultry

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

Why was I not surprised to discover that this story:  Chicken Vanishes, Heartbreak Ensues happened in Brooklyn? It’s a quintessential city tale. We’ve thought about keeping chickens; The Youngest One would love it. I wrote to the city to see … Continue reading →

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I Want to Believe…

Posted on February 2, 2011 by

(Author’s note: this is a long post-5 pages, double-spaced. It’s taken me over a week to write, and I’m not entirely in love with it, but here it is anyhow.) By now you’ve probably seen or heard the story that … Continue reading →

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