Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Hydroponic Vegetable Garden

April 25th, 2010

victory-garden

I’ve long mentioned my desire to plant a vegetable garden indoors. I’ve grappled with figuring out where and how I would set it up, what sort of mixtures I would use for different plants, how much light I could give them, what types of fertilizer I would need to get, and so forth. The limitations of an indoor apartment vegetable garden combined with the complex needs and desires of such a garden were daunting. I ordered books, I did research, I realized, to my increasing frustration, that the world was patting me on the head and going, “there, there, darling, wouldn’t you like some lovely flowers? Perhaps you won’t kill your next dull potted plant.” keep reading »

Food, Inc.

April 13th, 2010


So excited to check this out. It in my netflix instant queue.

It’s already been said by Thomas Jefferson

September 19th, 2009

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”