awesome photographs and interesting text as always, but the real winner for MY money is the picture of a dish of black rice, the bouquet of which I can almost smell as I look at the image. Nothing like it…

who knew?

Just a bit to the East of my European interests, so I don't feel driven to download wildly… but it's nice to know that somebody is putting the (otherwise REALLY obscure/unobtainable) stuff out there

from Suburban Guerrilla… read what Joe Bageant says and reflect. Money quote: "If insurance corporation profits are one third of the cost of health care, and all insurance corporations do is deliver our money to health care providers for us (or actually, do everything in their power to keep the money for themselves), why do we need insurance companies at all?"

"PMO Iqaluit bumble" (how can you not read on?)

Jake has a jewel here, and I'd be jealous but for the fact that I have one too –mine's 1966, but equally lovely Brazilian rosewood and that distinctive 00-21 sound. Yeah…

Pretty good invective (and ethnographically accurate too) down to the last two (entirely predictable if one reads Kunstler regularly) paragraphs

mooooore verbunk!