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The few are enough... As most of you know, I do not and have not participated in phone surveys of any sort for a decade or more. I have al...

The drift away from stuff... Even as wages remain sorta stagnant , Americans are enjoying a windfall from lower gasoline prices. But early...

Not much progress... I keep looking for some indication that the public is coming 'round on GMO's. If they are, I haven't see...

Umm, guys... Every morning I check Bloomberg to see how much those darn interest rates have shot up. This shouldn't be happening. ...

Like a death in the family...   Andrew Sullivan, perhaps one of the greatest masters of the blog format, is ending his blog - The Daily Di...

American exceptionalism, Exhibit K... [ Source ]

Let's all hum... The "Lumberjack Song" in honor of the most dangerous job in the US. Seems to me like we'r...

Our own p.c problem....  Jonathan Chait wrote a dense, but helpful essay about the rise and reaction to intense "political correctnes...

Are we hunkering?... Wasted too much time this morning reading smug/sarcastic/funny tweets about the East Coast Snopocalypse Fail . In the...

Free market measles... I'm trying to move past the stupefying idiocy of refusing to get measles vaccinations . (Yeah - I'm looking...

The Final Solution...  Farmers may win the war on the EPA with Congressional help. But I've always thought that was not the real thre...

This is our story...  A straight-up parody of a crop failure is making the rounds in ag today. First, it's well done - nobody b...

Best laid plans, etc... I'm gonna start posting again, but we're dealing with some health issues here at the Phipps farm. It comes...

Where's my catcher?...  I still don't understand why there is no self-propelled, autonomous grain cart .  (I call it a catcher) It...

Could it affect schools, too?...  Over the next couple of decades, I think the much-needed infrastructure upgrades in the US will increasi...

Thoughts about Ebola... 1. Wash your hands . Often. Well. 2. Read this . 3. Remain calm. There is money to be made in this slo-mo panic...

Removing the rungs... Pretty soggy and I've got my video sent for this week, so I need to post. At least, I'm out of excuses. And ...

Reluctant pessimism... One unspoken reason for my posting pause was a fear I was becoming just another grumpy fault-finder . My theory was...

Russian re-collapse... I'm not much on calling catastrophes, but I think the economic sanctions derided as too little and too feeble b...

The Junkbox... Is now my Twitter feed.   I'm using Twitter to post my links to stuff with brief comments - it's much faster than ...