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Education season
I missed a free webinar Tuesday on growing heritage and ancient wheat. Just slipped my mind. A couple Sundays from now, I'll be going to "goat college," a class with real goats where people who are considering raising goats can learn all about their care. (Of course, if I don't get more land, I can't have goats anyway, but it's $35 and you never ( Read more... ) -
The Psycho-Sexual Abuse Inflicted by Feminism
An open letter to the Two Scotts | on Nerds and Entitlement
A stunning letter by Karen Straughn to Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander in response to Aaronson's comment #171 and this long (I've only finished 6 of the 13 parts), untitled, but powerful blog post by Alexander. If you can find the time, I urge you to read Scott Alexander's post, which ( Read more... ) -
A thought...
Polyamory as an iteration of consumerist culture. Discuss.
My thoughts are that 1) it wouldn't even be a thing without birth control, and 2) the psychology that drives it looks to me to be remarkably similar to that that drives retail therapy. "Never mind what I already have. It's about getting something new. Just because I'm unsatisfied unless I' ( Read more... ) -
Not quite Rumplestiltskin
New skill: I can turn grass that grows on my land into reasonably strong string that's easy to tie. I haven't tried to do any serious lengths, or put it to a test like using it on a fire bow drill. Yesterday, while resting after cutting and hauling some poles for the deer fence (that's another story), I sat in the gas company right-of-way among ( Read more... ) -
Want to feel old?
Tomorrow's 9/11. There are high school students who have no memory of it. There are kids in middle school who weren't even alive yet when it happened. To them, it's like what Vietnam was to people my age--something that ended just before we arrived, something that, as we grew up, we saw adults reeling from but that we, ourselves, had no personal ( Read more... ) -
I found another one
I've spoken before, here and elsewhere, about how the ideologies of the Left and Right in this country seem inconsistent with their positions on private ownership of weapons*. I happened upon another such inconsistency earlier today in a discussion about third-trimester abortions ( Read more... ) -
Oil Addiction
I just had a heretical thought. I was looking at something on Facebook that was talking about oil subsidies, and of course, we're supposed to believe that oil subsidies serve no purpose other than making rich people even richer. But I got to thinking...maybe we do need to support the oil industry. I'm not asserting that we do. I'm simply opening ( Read more... )