I’m off for a weekend of wild abandon, debauchery, and carousing. Well, a weekend of going to garage sales, hitting Costco, and spending time at The Mother Earth News Fair, courtesy of Earthineer and Backwoods Home. Which is as close to debauchery as I get, these days.
So I leave you with these links and will see you in a few.
- You may already be on the “do not fly” list — and who knows how many other lists in how many other dark governmental places. But now — something new! You can petition the White House to add you to a brand-new Do Not Kill list! (You’ll need JavaScript enabled to see the petition; otherwise you’ll just see a White House petition site.)
- Stereo-atypical.
- “A Better Amercia.” Huh?
- The seven most terrifying archaeological discoveries. (NB: Disturbing photos, but nothing Indiana Jones couldn’t handle.)
- Community radio cuts disaster risk. In Bangladesh. (H/T PT)
- Told they were “too young” to volunteer at an animal shelter, two sisters started their own. Big time. (Via MLS)
- Everything you ever never wanted to know about the TSA at a glance. (Tip o’ hat to MJR)
- Here’s one of those things that makes you reconsider something you’ve “always known.” Do Americans really have food abundance in our supermarkets?
- This is a couple of days old now, which puts it several centuries back in Twitterverse terms. But it’s still funny. When The Donald trumpeted, “What could be better” than having lunch with him and Mitt Romney, Twitter users answered.
- Which is more stupid? NYC mayor Bloomberg wanting to ban large softdrinks? Or the bureaucrats of Idaho getting silly over this? Hm. Hm. Decisions, decisions …
- Now this, on the other hand, makes perfect sense. No doubt that’s why the judge refused to do it.
I don’t understand people who complain about what food choices are available in grocery stores (or elsewhere). Can you imagine how huge a store would have to be to offer even a small percentage of those 1200 varieties of watermelon, not to mention everything else? And how expensive watermelons would be in such a market?
Grocery stores are a shortcut. They are almost like cheating. If you don’t want to bother with growing your own, you go to a grocery store. They offer what they do so that they can give you the best variety they can (“watermelon or cantaloupe” more so than “watermelon A or Watermelons B, C, D, …”) at a price you are willing and able to pay.
If you want something that isn’t available, grow it or find someone who will.
Hi Claire, I don’t find Backwoods Home listed among the Puyallup participants. Will they/you be participating this year? (Missed you last year.)
Doug — I also noticed they weren’t listed. But BHM is definitely going to be there — Dave, John Silveira, and possibly Annie, among others.
I’m going, but I won’t be in the booth all weekend as I was last year. Just dropping by late Saturday and early Sunday.
It’s a great event (with or without me 😉 ). Big, informative, and friendly.
Doug – BHM is there. Not being listed in the program seems on par (I’ve been to every MENF, and I haven’t seen them listed yet). I always have to go to the information booth and ask for their booth number.
Not only is there a food abundance in stores, but Americans have a bad habit of throwing an abundance of food away, too.
I’m a little leery of that “do not kill” list. It sounds a little too much like “don’t think about an elephant”.
PS: I’m curious how that blogger’s watermelons do. I’m on my second year growing Golden Midgets, and so far the thing that stands out the most is how anemic the plants always seem, even when other varieties around them are doing great.
Man, if only I could write like those Cracked folks do. That’s funny stuff.
Thought I’d pass this link along – another rescue shelter (for Great Pyrenees) is looking for some help, and not in the way usually expected:
http://www.denverpost.com/athome/ci_20763351/giant-dogs-need-guardian-kryders-seek-successor-great-pyrenees
naturegirl — I sure hope those great people find somebody to take on their operation. Pyrs are beautiful dogs and what they’re doing is so great. But oh man, those dogs are the most hellacious barkers; whoever takes that project will need to be either deaf of monstrously tolerant of noise.
I didn’t know about the barking, that’s not going to help much…..I was thinking that whoever takes over should at least weigh more than the dogs do LOL…..huge dogs !