Time to Rethink Soy?

While traditionally fermented soy is an amazing protein source, soy as it proliferates in modern American Agri-business is not so healthy, on many levels.
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Mass Media Taking Stephen Colbert Too Seriously

Whilst discussing how mass media spin doctors manage to warp time and space, this essay on how these news sources are reacting to Stephen Colbert's candidacy is a must read.



The obvious media reaction to the Colbert candidacy should have been to note it as the book-selling publicity stunt that it was, have a chuckle, and move on. Instead, the press lingered, giving the story way too much attention, and often at the expense of more pressing topics.

For instance, ABC's Nightline found time to cover the Colbert candidacy. Yet Nightline has not found time during the last six weeks to cover the war from Iraq. I'm just sayin'.

FIVE LIES YOU PROBABLY BELIEVE IF YOU GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

3) It is impossible for our government to provide universal healthcare without bankrupting the country

Just about every industrialized democracy has government run healthcare. What they don’t have is forty percent of their annual budget going to feed the defense industry, to make weapons to hold phantom monsters at bay. Half of what we spend on defense would get full medical coverage for everyone in the country. Any journalist that even hints at this will quickly find himself covering town council meetings in Adak, Alaska, however, because the defense industry has had a field day since Reagan (see 1) buying up media outlets. General Electric owns NBC, so don’t expect any hard-hitting defense industry exposes on Dateline.

But that’s where our health care money is going. And that’s why we don’t hear about it. Instead we hear about how unaffordable health care is. Meanwhile, cruise missiles go for about $575,000 apiece, and sometimes don’t even hit the country they’re aimed at. One of the missiles fired at bin Laden’s training camp in 2000 inexplicably veered off into Pakistan. That’s money well spent.


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Representin' at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair

Come check out the booth we're sharing with our parent store Earthlight Books at this year's Antiquarian Book Fair!

View our choice items featured for the Fair.

high on garrison keillor

i fucking hate taking price stickers off books, especially mass market paperbacks

why can't they just have a goddamn shelf for 25 cent books, and, considering I'm on the vein already, WHERE THE FUCK DID MY CENT KEY GO AND WHY DO I NOW HAVE TO ACCESS IT THROUGH SOME SORT OF INSERT ARCHAIC GODDAMN SYMBOL MENU? Rob's idea of changing the name of pennies to 'reagans' was brilliant even before i modified it to 'gippers', as in "that’ll be three dollars and twenty-five gippers, after the governor takes her sweet little slice"

thank you, thank you

guess what? i got f-ing tipped yesterday for selling books! one dollar! moments after i tipped the sweet girls at Evergreen who were capably womaning the food booth from the organic farm. no wonder they have so many food co-ops in Minnesota. I never thought of it that way before! Look at all those oooooooooooooooooooooooooos

karma is indeed a blessed thing, or, as Mark Helprin so aptly puts it in the book I’m currently reading too slowly, A Winter’s Tale, : (take that grammerticians)

“We learn that justice may not always follow a just act, that justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected, that a miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.”

Holy-sweet-good-goddamn! Rob, this one’s too hot for water. I can see why it’s yer favorite.

All I can add is this: When the timing boils down to nothing and a good selfless deed on your part is immediately returned in kind from an unpredictable source, that moment itself is pure redemption.