Why We’re Gaga for Gaga
For all the unpredictability of her outfits, there is one thing that has been quite predictable about her work: Gaga’s constant equation of love with violence and humiliation.
Obesity Rates Double. Let’s Ban Transfat.
If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.
Politics Reformed
A review of a fine book by Glenn Moots which opens the door to rethinking about America theologically.
Agriculture vs. Agribusiness
A visit to a CAFO makes it clear that to have sustainable agriculture, you have to make sustainable the lives and livelihoods of the people who do the work.
Title-town
The Green Bay Packers – like America itself - are a study in ironies: the smallest city owning a franchise in the largest professional sport, a non-profit corporation in one of America’s most commercial businesses. It is fitting, then, that they should win the championship in Dallas – home to the Dallas Cowboys – that most market-driven of sports franchises.
انه الاقتصاد، غبي
Here are two scenarios: one leads through democratic enlightenment to peace and prosperity, and the other through intractable economic problems to war and disintegration.
Locavoracity
What is the point of eating local? Are we actually feeding something besides our own ego and gluttony?