A reader tracked down one of the first mentions in the press of Sarah Palin. From the Anchorage Daily News, April 3, 1996: Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage... Full story...
Blake Hurst gives thanks: If the movie “Food, Inc.” can be said to have a theme, it is that corn is too cheap.
A very useful reminder of the long view, in these days of precipitous decline after the disastrous, bankrupting, morale-breaking over-reach of the Bush-Cheney years: Even if America is exhausted, worn out and a shadow of her former self, from having.
And why I will not relent on Palin and the danger she represents: "The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions -- racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war -- which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as.
Hank Hyena, writing for transhumanist magazine H+, imagines the consequences of lab grown meat: In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm.
A military wife reflects: I remember the year we celebrated Thanksgiving on a Sunday evening in October.
Jennifer Reese raised her own turkeys this year: The heritage bird runs very fast around the yard first thing in the morning, flapping his wings and trilling musically while the factory-bred girl stands there, calm and blinking.
A reader writes: I respectfully disagree with your reader who spells out what they describe as the cynical and political thought process behind the argument in very honest fashion.
Manzi weighs in on "Climategate." His sane point: The root problem here is not the eternal perfidy of human nature, but the fact that we can’t run experiments on history to adjudicate disputes, which makes this less like chemistry or.
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