archive for August 14th, 2006

Digest: Worker shortage, Yao goes shark-free, lawn care

by @ Monday, August 14th, 2006.

AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Immigration reform can’t happen fast enough to help organic farmers find enough workers.
New York Times: Yao Ming, the 7-foot-6 Shanghai-born N.B.A. star, declared at a Beijing press conference that he would never eat shark-fin soup again, because “endangered species are our friends.” His speaking out is a big deal in China, where […]

Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner When You’ve Had a Very Bad Day

by @ Monday, August 14th, 2006.

Saturday started out bad and got worse. I woke up indisposed, due to the inadvertent consumption of immoderate amounts of wine the night before. Thus impaired, I had a ham and cheese croissant for breakfast. Yummy, maybe, but full of white flour and industrial ham. Blech. Then a package arrived from a friend of my […]

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