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Daily Archive for August 16th, 2011

Update: American Hunger has Increased 33% in a Single Year!

Posted in Fun Facts on Aug 16th, 2011

Last year at about this time I first heard a public service announcement claiming that 1 in 8 Americans were hungry. I protested at the time that this was an unrealistically large number. And no, that was not an attempt to disparage the poor or to lessen the potential severity of what poverty is like. […]

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Localism Paradox

Posted in You Can't Have it Both Ways on Aug 16th, 2011

Riddle me this. Why does it seem that folks who support living in small-scale, localized communities (such as those espoused by EF Schumacher or Bill McKibben) also idolize centralized, intrusive, massive federal government power? The virtues of local living, we are told, include knowing the people around you, adapting to the local environmental and growing […]

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