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Going to Get My Pig
30Sep09
I never thought I’d be a person who gets so excited about slaughtering season, but here I sit.
After reading Michael Pollan’s outstanding book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I decided that I no longer want my family’s meat purchases to support corporate farms. I want no part of paying for animals full of growth hormones or antibiotics, [...]
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The FDIC is A-OK by Me
29Sep09
I got a bunch of money in the mail yesterday. It was unexpected and, normally, would have been a lovely surprise. In this case, though, the checks were accompanied by a letter from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stating that the bank in Chicago where I kept a few CDs had gone belly-up. Three weeks [...]
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