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The USA

$1.5 BILLION DOWN THE TUBE

This just in: The Federal Government has earmarked 1.5 billion dollars, not for education or health care, but to help consumers continue watching television. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle,, after ordering broadcasters to shift from analog to digital television to clear the airwaves for emergencies, the federal government has earmarked $1.5 […]

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Food

FREEGAN DIVERS

I’m noshing on a toasted blueberry bagel, thinking how wonderful it is to be living off the largess of the machine. By that I mean, the bagel was destined for the landfill before our friends Link and Tim rescued it from a dumpster. In this country, we have so much food that 40% of it […]

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Food

ANOTHER CULINARY EPIPHANY

The minute we entered the Chatham Marketplace, we smelled it. Kentucky Fried Chicken! Our stomachs rumbled in anticipation. A second later, our vegan brains slammed on the brakes. Vegans don’t eat Kentucky Fried Chicken! Regardless of how many buckets they may have consumed in a previous life. But wait, it was okay! The little sign […]

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Oilseed

LINK AND THE BONE HEAD

Link’s house mate, Simon, has twice startled me by entering a room wearing a cow’s pelvis on his head. Masks don’t generally sit well with me and when Simon appears in this get up, It gives me the heebie jeebies. I try to pretend that it is just Simon in his bone outfit. I try […]

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Oilseed

CAMCORDER AT LARGE

Matt got a new camcorder and brought it by Camelina the other night. At the same time, Ian dropped by with the good news that he had passed the big test, allowing him to move forward with his Ph.D. So, over peanuts and beers, they filmed this: Something tells me this is just the beginning…