Month: June 2005

Community Supported Agriculture

Several people asked me to diary on CSA’s in a welcome wagon thread.  As a disclaimer, let me state that I am not a farmer, but merely an enthusiastic member, and convert to the world of CSA.  The concept of a...

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Supreme Court Slams Texas for Racial Bias!

By a vote of 6 to 3: WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a black death row inmate who said Texas prosecutors unfairly stacked his jury with whites, issuing a harsh rebuke to the state that...

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Name the Wal-Mart Film

Name that film! “Filmmaker Robert Greenwald thought he’d come up with a great name for his new film: ‘Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price’ … ” [B]ut then language framer George Lakoff wisely...

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Get Rid of the Competition

More weird ‘christian’ practices. ..the “Lost Boys,” a group of more than 400 teenagers — some as young as 13 — who authorities in Utah and Arizona say have fled or been driven out of the...

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Single Issue Identity Group Politics & Trauma

The rise of single issue identity group behavoir in reaction to trauma and the positive aspects thereofThis post was originally intended to be a reply to a comment on a media girl diary. Her diary had been on the recommended...

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