Tag: Originally Posted at NC Mountain Dreams
These posts were originally posted at my first blog…In cleaning up an refocusing that site I am moving these posts here. The original dates are preserved.
Torture and Terror, Un-American Activities
A quiet Saturday morning of reading blogs brought sharp clarity: this administration is steering us down a perilous slope. By sacrificing essential constitutional protections and normalizing torture, authority has abandoned the consent of the governed. When dissent is branded as treason, our fundamental rights as citizens hang dangerously in the balance.
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Ann Richards
A great lady who preceded the mess of George W. Bush died last week, and Molly Ivins offered a classic memory of her at Scholz Garten: introducing Ann Richards to a racist East Texas judge, only for Ann to beam and disarmingly tell him, “I am Mrs. Miles.”
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The False Hope of Biofuels
I know we are all holding out great hopes for biofuels, but these nagging pieces keep showing up in the papers… The False Hope of Biofuels: “Biofuels such as ethanol
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Common Ground: The Shortest Food Chain
Here’s another article on the sustainable foods culture. The tie is to the book by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Looks like another trip to the booksellers for me. Everthing I
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Support Your Local Farmer, Craftsperson, and Shopkeeper
It looks like if there is a common thread running through recent posts it is the idea of buying local. My concern was originally in the way of food. I
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The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, June 22, 2006 Thoreau’s Journal: 22-Jun-1851 As I walk the railroad causeway, I notice that the fields and meadows have acquired various tinges as the season advances, the sun
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‘Organic’ Loses Its Freshness
Small organic growers stubbornly plug away, but the “O” word now means something entirely different—used to lend credibility to “industrial organic” food produced on large, factory-style farms. Buy fresh, locally grown food produced by someone you know. Once the relationship between producer and consumer is re-established, both will benefit.
