Unqualified Offerings

Testing an embed of a video on locally grown food – in Chicago.
Sky Full of Bacon 01: How Local Can You Go? from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.
Honestly, it’s not your lively, peppy, Youtube-Generation video. But you gotta love the crazy experiments. Some of them are going to work. The ones that don’t, we just stop [...]

Where do terrorists come from? A Jamestown Foundation study by Chris Zambelis says: the world’s torture chambers. Particularly, in the case of radical Islamists, the torture chambers of US client-states. Naturally the US government, in its Addingtonian wisdom, responded by opening torture chambers of our own and creating a new US client-state in the middle [...]

Over at AOTP, I get impolitic about the politics of Heller.

By Thoreau
The latest from Mars:
“Earth-type life would be happy to live in this soil,” Phoenix team member Samuel Kounaves of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, said at a media teleconference today. “You could grow asparagus but not [acid-loving] strawberries” in the alkaline dirt.
Of course, the libertarian solution is to skip the farm subsidies and grow [...]

Let’s see who is how stupid about Heller and gun laws, shall we?
Eugenue Robinson: stupid about the latter but not the former. All in all, a credible performance by the guy who has become my favorite newspaper columnist over the last year. On gun control itself, he writes
I realize that the now-defunct D.C. law was [...]