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From the monthly archives:
Here’s a potential view brought to us by the ACLU of what ordering a pizza might look like in the future when we all have personal ID numbers assigned to us.
The ACLU website states:
Government programs and private-sector data collection are destroying our privacy, pushing us towards a 24-hour surveillance society.
We are facing a [...]
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Now that I’m eating meat, I’m having fun cooking again and trying new recipes. A couple nights ago I cooked Tarragon Chicken.
In this recipe I was introduced to the delightful taste of shallots and tarragon in white wine, and I used crème fraîshe for the first time. I have to say that tarragon [...]
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For years I donated a monthly amount to help protect North American wolves, which have been threatened with extinction. I’ve answered every call to contact my government to ask them to protect the wolves.
Everytime I think we’ve succeeded in protecting them, my government finds an opportunity to kill them. Now, according to Defenders of Wildlife, [...]
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Thursday my friend Pete and I went to see Julie and Julia in the theater. Also in attendance were about 30 female grayhairs and one other man. I would have loved to interview some of the women watching with us to get their impressions. The theater was filled with laughter many times. I wonder how [...]
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Michael Eades posted today about a book by Leirre Keith called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability , which ties in well with some of the thoughts I posted yesterday. Thanks, Michael! I’m definitely going to have to get my hands on this book. (So many good books, so little time.)
I wanted to share [...]
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When reading scientific studies and books, the paradigm with which you approach a subject determines how you will interpret the data. For example, science believes cholesterol causes atherosclerosis because it is present in blocked arteries. If a study group reduces dietary cholesterol and has less heart attacks than a control group, then it’s obvious that [...]
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