Saturday, December 31, 2011

Sssh, the Secret of Farming

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As it says here, for many years farmers lived on their depreciation.  What that means is that as long as you have some cash flow and low de...

NY Times and Agriculture on 12/31/2011

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The Times has two stories on agriculture today: one on the growth of big organic farms outside the country, drawing down water supplies and ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Petty Bureaucracy in the Private Sector: B&B Complaints

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James Fallows had a bad experience with a B&B (owner forgot his reservation) and petty bureaucrats prevented him from publishing his rev...

Organic Versus Locavore

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There's a tension between organic food and the locavores, a tension I see in this NYTimes article .  There's a scarcity of organic m...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

How Society Changes: Imperceptibly

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The Post has an advice columnist, Carolyn Hax, who today had this bit from a reader: On parenting in “the good old days”: I had two c...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Victory of Government Over the Natural Life

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In the old days (i.e. 18th century) cities like London were sinks, people sinks, places where people died, not places where people were born...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Understatement of the Month

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Musings from a Stonehead: "They think keeping chickens is cheap and easy with minimal effort involved. The reality is somewhat diff...

The First Woman (CED in OK)

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The NYTimes Magazine yesterday had as its theme obituaries of people who died in 2011.  Included was a piece on people who were the "f...

EU Standards for Poultry, and Spanking

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Via Musings from a Stonehead , I learn that the UK has new standards for poultry, bigger and better cages if I understand.  This is, I think...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas

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No posting til Monday.