Category Archives: Commentary

Produce World, Meat World

11/11/1999 – 3:12 pm

There was snow on the mountaintops six weeks ago, which means it’s due in the valleys this week. I’ve seen a few flakes floating in the air, but nothing has accumulated on the ground. The harvest is in, which means no more fresh vegetables from the farm share. The Saturday public market has shut down […]

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Feeding the Hungry

11/4/1999 – 3:13 pm

The World Trade Organization, which is quickly becoming the transnational government of Planet Earth, will be meeting in Seattle at the end of this month. Right now, it looks as if the meeting will be a food fight with the delegates from Europe squaring off against the Americans over biotechnology and genetically-modified organisms in the […]

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The Hammer of Justice

10/28/1999 – 3:41 pm

Here’s a piece of news you might have missed if you were watching CNN: a week ago today, a Scottish judge, Margaret Gimblett, acquitted three anti-nuclear protesters on charges of sabotaging a floating laboratory which supports British Trident nuclear submarines. In June, the protesters – Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder and Angie Zelter – boarded the […]

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Horror Stories

10/21/1999 – 4:40 pm

Autumn is slipping away from the north woods and I’ve been out camping again. Late at night, lying very still in my sleeping bag, I listen to the night sounds, raccoons rustling the dry leaves as they investigate the campsite, the clicking of bare twigs as the wind moves through the trees, the snort and […]

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News to the Senate

10/14/1999 – 4:41 pm

If you really want to understand an issue, find a newspaper reporter, sit him or her in a bar and start buying beer. In 30 minutes, she or he will lay the whole thing out for you with astonishing clarity. Now, why they fail to explain things so clearly when they sit down to write […]

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Where I Live

10/7/1999 – 4:43 pm

When you get to a certain age, you find yourself trying to explain your history to the generation that’s coming after you. You think if you can do this, it will help them make sense of the stages of life as they pass through. It may even help you make sense of your own life. […]

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Reagan’s Idiot

9/30/1999 – 4:44 pm

I have a friend who grew up in Cooperstown, New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. When he told me that, my eyes took on a far away, dreaming gaze. “Wow,” I said, “that must have been great…” My friend snorted with contempt. He disdains the Baseball Hall of Fame. Of course, that […]

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