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 [...]

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 [...]

In which I ask a favor of more financially successful bloggers. We’d like to get Art of the Possible signed up as a Blogads affiliate. That requires an invite from an existing affiliate with invite privileges. I am an existing affiliate without invite privileges, so I can’t do it. But if you can and will, [...]