John is back on IM, which makes me happy (I like having people just a window away, it helps justify my own addiction to the screen…incidentally, anyone out there who hasn’t read Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen should so. Now.) So we had a discussion about the direction he wants MoF to go in […]

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by Brian Halweil
The title should perhaps be not “reclaiming” but “exploring” as it is less a discussion of how and why to reclaim “homegrown pleasures” than a description of the changes different communities around the world are making in response to an ever more global food economy.

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A friend & cousin of mine & I were talking the other night. He’s about to graduate and I was being a annoying dult at him: “what will you do after graduation?” “will you go into the kinds of industries your major implies?” and the like. I told him he could be a marine! jokingly, […]

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I’ve told many people that I don’t want to have children and I’d like to just start with that, so we’re all clear. I could explain my reasons but they really have little to do with what follows. Even if I did want to have children, I would not want to have them in this […]

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I can’t help but think that these are more publicity stunts than anything. I hope it gets people to make real changes in their lives, including maybe some of these people at their McMansions:
Congress - 50% over 10 years, seriously? You have nearly unlimited resources, how ’bout some actual change?
Evan Almighty - I wonder if […]

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let’s discuss.
“Vatican Issues 10 Commandments for Drivers”
Official Vatican Site: “the Pastoral Care of Road Users” and the actual commandments (you have to scroll down to point 61)
In brief, for those who haven’t heard or don’t want to explore the links above: the Vatican issued what it calls its 10 commandments for drivers. They begin with, […]

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A few months ago, Wired published photographs of people’s faces in the midst of gaming. The artist indicated that we got to see “raw emotion” as people let their public face disappear. Personally, I thought it was a kind of a twisted insight into the religion of atheists (not to say that gamers are all […]

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While in Church recently, I remembered that, as I began to feel that I didn’t really believe, I left out the bits of the Nicene Creed that I didn’t actually believe. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even start the Creed anymore when it gets to that part of Mass (the only responses […]

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My brother forwarded a link to this video, which sent me into the worst case of cubicle giggles I’ve had in years.

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I recently read this article about excommunication at Salon. It’s not necessary to read, the general thrust of it is that bishops & popes threatening excommunication to people who support abortion (either by voting for politicians who support it or by being politicians who support it) are hoping that the threat of excommunication is sufficient […]

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