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Archive for August, 2009
5-7-5
Posted in Daily Scratch, tagged education, haiku, poetry on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“My friend, fashion is danger” ~ FOTC
Posted in Daily Scratch, tagged gel, kids, makeup, music, School on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
School starts next week. In preparation, we’ve all got new haircuts, various and sundry school fees have been paid, new pants purchased, and I just spent an ungodly amount of money on a graphing calculator.
And Egon has purchased an enormous tub of “Extreme Hold” hair gel.
He was inspired, in part, by Flight of the Conchords. [...]
Alarming farming
Posted in Chickens, Daily Scratch, farming, tagged farming, land use, urban agriculture on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. ~ Dickson D. Despommier
Leaving aside the unsupported nature of such an alarmist claim, the answer which Mr. Despommier offers to the crisis of lost agricultural land is bizarre and counterproductive. [...]
