You Are Where You Eat aka Linkfest

Via Ethicurian, U.S. Food Policy's Google Earth display of ten sites illustrative of US agriculture practices that you probably don't know about.
What I always find fascinating about these displays are the deep complexities in policy that arise over time, growing like an incredible organism until we arrive at the end point of an incomprehensible jumble of blinkered desire, or, to be a bit less polite, greed.

Linkfest, first of ?

I've decided that someone ought to get something out of my perusing the intertubes, and that might as we be you. So, the first in well, probably a lot of links:

Steven Colbert + Glenn Greenwald= Be still, my psyche!

In re: birthers. I have always been fond of Richard Hofstadter, and used to sit in his corner in Butler Library when reading. So I was pleased to find, via LGM this link to The Paranoid Style in American Politics.

Enjoy!

Notes From All Over

Hilzoy has decided to stop blogging. Sorry to see her go; I know of no one else who has been unfailingly rigorous in her attempts to deal with the distortions passed off as accurate in the blogosphere.