Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Items of Interest, 31 May 2011

How Offshoring Has Destroyed the Economy
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS





A Pigpen for the Backyard
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer, Mulligan Books

Loose talk about pigpens in the yard will send the blood pressure soaring in the veins of local zoning officials, if not your neighbors. It’s perfectly all right in our culture to keep a dog half the size of a cow in the yard, letting it bark all night and running all over town dropping manure in its wake. But a quiet, clean hog producing something useful like pork chops? Heaven forbid.

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