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If only pigs ran politics

This being my first diary entry, I want to offer fair warning: in this and subsequent posts, there will be a great many reference to farm animals. I live on a farm. I raise farm animals. We have...

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Find me somebunny to love

So yesterday I wrote a tearjerker about Boris the Pig, and I had to promise my friend Stephanie to write something a bit more uplifting so she wouldn't be bummed out all day. Fortunately, I have just...

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Recycled rant: a response to a college conservative

It may be cheating a little, but I'm going to post something I wrote last December. I'd been laid off from a good job for about a month and a half, and was trying to figure out how I was going to...

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On healthcare reform, chronic disease, and farm animals

I'm keeping one eye on the Supreme Court debate about healthcare reform, and I'm listening to what's going on with a weird mix of dread and hope. Why? Because I think the SCOTUS will ultimately strike...

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The problem with unfettered capitalism

Caveat emptor.If Latin isn't your thing, consider the English version: "Buyer, beware." Know what you're getting before you pay good money for it.But what if you don't have the knowledge base to make...

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There's education, and then there's education

I was responding to a few of the comments on my earlier rant about a post by a college student regarding welfare reform, when something struck me: in my post, I'm advocating education reform,...

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We are all connected: A sheep soap opera

I've often commented to my friends and family that my home state of Maine is one very big small town, where everyone knows everyone else and sooner or later, you find that your daughter's frenemy at...

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Be Brave, and give Mom her due

Dear Disney,Having seen Brave yesterday, it seems like you're making progress with your deep-seated Mommy issues. Historically, Disney films have taken the position that the only good mother was a dead...

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Shooting stars, not shooting people

When I logged in to Facebook yesterday, the first news I saw wasn't about the Connecticut shootings... for which I'm grateful. No, the first news I saw was a post from the owner of the HF Bar Ranch in...

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