…were the slowest thing in the garden. We’ve had two frosts, and some are still immature. I took one out three days ago when I came up short an onion for some chili con carne, and the leek in place of the onion was a very nice chili surprise. Daughter Jayme has had a few [...]

This summary by Latin Americanist James Petras is a good place to begin making sense… Distribute this widely. The full court press is on to unseat Venezuela’s popular democracy, where relocalization of political power is now on tha agenda… and it has the ruling class of the whole hemisphere in a twist. * * * [...]

…here is wikileaks. Wikileaks is a web portal for whistleblowers, and we want to encourage that. Drop a dime on illegal, immoral actions by your government, by big business, and by politicians and officers. Government and corporate secrecy is seldom to protect anyone. It is overwhelmingly used to prevent the public knowing what the rhetorical [...]

Cogntive Biases from Wikipedia These can be critiqued and elaborated upon item by item; but they are a very useful point of reference. -SG Decision-making and behavioral biases * Bandwagon effect — the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. [...]

DeAnander has made the remark more than once that what gets done for profit is nearly always wrong, as in wrong-headed, incredibly stupid, and-or outright morally reprehensible. I have bad news. She is right… again and again. As proof, we offer this loatest from Rachel’s: CARBON SEQUESTRATION [Rachel's introduction: Carbon sequestration is an industrial plan [...]

By reader request a rant of DeAnander’s from Stan’s Man on Fire review thread has been promoted to a frontpage article. I believe Stan posted this review in headbanging frustration at the liberal idiocy of this recent “fair and balanced” discussion of porn at Alternet. The two “debating opponents” — neither of whom, of course, [...]

(excerpted from Sex & War, 2005 which is slightly cheating, but we haven’t had a FFR for a while) On September 24, 2004, CNN reported charges brought against three US Navy SEALS in the death of an Iraqi detainee, part of a much larger damage control investigation in the wake of the Abu Ghraib photo [...]

(hat tip to DeAnander) Starvid said: Re: The sky ain’t falling (none / 0) That’s a good follow-up question… “The middle class” should be a reasonable if controversial answer. I mean, you need both fairness, social mobility and rewards for entrepeneurs and people who want to study and work hard. Without losing sight of the [...]

About 10 Morton West High School students suspended over an anti-war protest at the school last week returned to the Berwyn school today to demand they be allowed back in classes. The kids were accompanied by about 20 parents and anti-war activists at a press conference in front of Morton West. About 25 students were [...]

AMONG the news media’s many failings, none may be more pernicious than the persistent confusion between fairness and moral indifference. Regular readers of Regarding Media may recall that the late Edward R. Murrow delivered about the best possible judgment on this confusion’s impact, when he decried a faux notion of journalistic fairness that is willing [...]