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Important information for your Thanksgiving…..
If you’re like our family, the second best thing about Thanksgiving—right after the stuffing—is the annual Turkey Bowl. Usually grandpa (your humble blogger) determines the rules (usually favoring your humble blogger). We’ve had more than a few challenges to the rulings on the field (issued by you-know-who). But daughter, Linda—wide receiver, mother of two running backs, wife of one of the quarterbacks and grandmother of this year’s rookie phenom—has forwarded a set of rules not to be quarreled with. We offer them to your family as a public service. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204531404577050370294096452.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second I mentioned one quarterback—Linda’s husband, Bill—the other is Paul—Janet’s husband. I also mentioned our new rookie, great-grandson Rowan. Rowan may be only six months old, but…
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From the Soap Box….
Sometimes it seems to us that farming is a bit like the canary in the coal mine, a kind of early warning system. It’s the farmer who first saw the dangers of modern, industrial agriculture. He tried to tell us that not only was he being shoved off the land, but that the corporations replacing him were using industrial, mass production practices that were ultimately destructive to the land. But because the immediate result, as far as most consumers could tell, was lower prices, no one paid any attention to the warnings. Even when, like the canaries, millions of farmers keeled over and died. Only now are scientists beginning to worry, and…