Unqualified Offerings

From Wagon Wheel Ranch’s lamb page:
Some of our customers prefer to slaughter their lambs themselves. We can provide a clean area with running water on our farm.

Yeah that’s not me.
Admittedly, I never had a problem cleaning my own fish. But I’ve kind of sworn off lamb anyway.

A bunch of new links. Some of these are in the "OMG! Are you telling me Nell didn’t have a link already????" category; others are relatively new blogs or newish enthusiasms. I’ve added AOTP to the "UO Family" section. Without further ado:

@TAC
A Lovely Promise
A Thinking Reed
A Tiny Revolution
Attackerman
Dredge Report
Eunomia
Kerry Howley
Lifehacker
Postmodern Conservative
Publius Endures
Rad Geek
Steamy Kitchen
Upturned Earth

 
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I know that @TAC people occasionally read this blog, no doubt wistfully shaking their heads as they do so. So, a suggestion: y’all ought to try to hire Pat Lang. He’s made noises a couple weeks ago about making blogging more remunerative, which is hard as a sole proprietor who works for a living. He’d [...]

Mercedes to phase out petroleum-based engines by 2015?
Via Sully.
I tend to think food prices are going to be as big a shock to the system as gasoline per se. I never appreciated until very recently just how petroleum-dependent industrialized agriculture and animal husbandry are, and I suspect I’m not the only one. Pollan claims it [...]