Monday, March 03, 2008

Envy


Welcome back to the show.

Reader's of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (TOD) will know this already, but the US Department of Agriculture ought to be part of the AXIS OF EVIL. Also, if you liked TOD, you should check out Pollan's most recent tome, In Defense of Food (IDOF). It is designed for people like me who accepted completely his argument (in TOD) about various sundry problems with our industrialized food chain (but that might aptly be summarized thus: corn--or, as they say in southern Illinois, "carn") and want to know what then they should be eating. Also also, Jenn reports that Michael Pollan is the brother of Tracy Pollan. That's ... um ... really interesting.

Marty reports from our Canadian bureau (which is, oddly, located in Farmland, Indiana) that Oscar-loser Ellen Page is in fact Canadian. (It seems that she is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is a very cute little city that, for some reason, has no tall buildings.) Good for you, Ellen, though I wish you had been a little less forgettable on SNL. (Then again, post-strike SNL has been almost entirely forgettable, so perhaps I am being unfair. It has happened before.) Also, ex-Canadian Lord Black of Crossharbour (LBOC) reports to federal prison in Florida today. Marty points us to this piece about LBOC from the late William F. Buckley, though, as with many of WFB's columns, I'm not really sure what the point is (though it seems to have something to do with envy).

More anon.

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Blogger Marty said:

Well, I have to say, I found the Gawker article on Black's incarceration to be unnecessarily snide in tone. No matter, I'm sure a good Black-authored tome will come out of all this. Meanwhile, there's the appeal to consider...

Regarding Buckley's piece on Black: while it is written in Buckley-esque prose that even rivals Black's opaque style, I think his main point is: look, I'm not qualified to judge the case, and Black probably did skate a little close to the line of legality. However, he's been consistant in his defence, and has deliberately chosen the more difficult path of maintaining his innocence, rather than caving into the many easy plea agreements that he might have taken. In this respect, Black is more heroic than his critics are able to concieve.

Oh, I also wanted to point out that the gingerbread church and Eiffel tower in the Gingerbread Fantasia section of the Farmland website were my and Ali's entries for last year. Who says you can't have fun in rural Indiana?
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