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Pete Smith @ May 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This letter was published today at Survivalblog.com:
Sir:
I recently finished trenching and running a few hundred feet of irrigation pipe on land that has been in my wife’s family for a few generations. We are the proud recipients of this small farm in the Southeast US. My Mother-In-Law was helping, and getting various tools and such [...]
Pete Smith @ February 29, 2008 # One Comment
The comedian Robin Williams once famously described childbirth as “like passing a fucking bowling ball!”. Not from personal experience, presumably. Small wonder, though, that one pregnant passenger on an Indian train lost consciousness during a visit to the toilet. On coming round, she found to her horror that she had given birth and the baby [...]
Pete Smith @ January 13, 2008 # 7 Comments
Channel 4’s food season ‘Big Food Fight’ is about to start its second week. I’ve deliberately avoided most of the programs so far, because I know a lot of this stuff already and frankly I just get upset by yet more gory details about factory farming. Great bloke though Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall seems to be, I [...]
Pete Smith @ July 18, 2007 # One Comment
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Pete Smith @ June 23, 2007 # 7 Comments
Ethanol is promoted as a sustainable, clean-burning and eco-friendly fuel that will reduce pollution and global warming. A study from Stanford University suggests that large-scale moves away from gasoline to ‘alternative’ fuels containing a high proportion of ethanol would lead to an increase in numbers of respiratory-related deaths and hospitalizations.
A series of computer [...]