I continue to be on tour with the person that I tour with currently, and it's terrific. The word from the production manager (a fellow of dubious reliability when it comes to future predictions regarding production-related matters) is that we'll be carrying the same production next year as this year...

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No New Hope

In the last part of this series, we're going to look at farmer's markets, and locally-grown produce in general. It seems, at first blush, to be a Very Good Thing, and you have to really look for criticism of it.

Farmer's Markets

Or, Oh No, Is That Another Distribution Center?

So...

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Or, Qualify All the Things!

In this penultimate installment of my skeptical look at food, we're going to examine a few very different angles regarding the food we eat. These include the debate over GMO crops, and organic livestock.

The Terror of Genetically-Modified Organisms

Food Fight doesn...

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Or, I Could Literally Write A Book About This

Today, we're going to really delve into the claims surrounding organic agriculture, and try to get to the heart of some of the claims made in popular media like Food Fight and Food Inc.. Be ye fairly warned: massive wall of text and copious footnot...

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I ran across this doing research on kinetic typography today. I don't normally post little videos like this, but I enjoyed this monologue by the excellent George Hrab.

This echos my thoughts exactly. National borders are artificial constructs and while they provide a useful geographic demarcat...

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