Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
I bought some potatoes the other day and was surprised to see them packaged in a bag labeled “NASCAR.” Yes, NASCAR, the nation’s number-one spectator sport. “Isn’t that all about CAR Racing?” I asked myself. “What does car racing have to do with potatoes?” So I went to Nascar.com and found this: NASCAR branded produce […]
Best story in the news so far today comes from the New York Times ‘Health of Nations’ section, which suggests The United States is a nation of hypochondriacs. The American-English comparison, published this month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from people’s own reports of their health and also used some […]
Today, I decided to see if I could find out whether it’s possible to buy motor fuel in the United States that hasn’t been mixed with imported oil. For this exercise I targeted the Colorado/Wyoming area and the short answer is “No.” I did find some good news, though. 40% of the 22 million barrels […]
We’ve been living in the Continental United States for nearly 7 months now and are still in shock. It is really hard for us to be here and see how the quality of life has eroded. The problems and their solutions seem so obvious and so simple, yet the majority of people seem oblivious to […]
Ohmygod – how much more blatant can the Media-ocracy be! Yesterday, President Bush named Tony Snow, a talking head from Fox News, as his new press secretary. A corporate sponsored mouthpiece for a corporate sponsored administration. How painfully appropriate! Just another slash to the wrist of American Democracy, just another nick in the death of […]