Random links
- Woman Faces Jail Time for Planting Organic Vegetable Garden
- This seems even crazier than communities banning clothes lines (see trailer for an upcoming documentary campaigning against those laws)
- Israel Debates Two-Day Weekends, and Its Lifestyle
- For Israel the Friday/Saturday combo seems more workable than Saturday/Sunday, given Muslim views towards Friday and that there's already a half-day Friday as a result of Jewish views on the timing of the start of the Sabbath (sunset the previous day).
- "The study, which looked at more than 1,000 couples in long-term, committed relationships from the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Spain, found that frequent kissing, cuddling and caressing were predictors of relationship happiness for men only."
- An Unfair Deal: Fair trade is overrated.
- lower profitability / income and higher poverty in Nicaragua for fair trade and/or organic suppliers. The situation seems to be reversed in Columbia which the article attributes to better infrastructure.
- A quote from Albert Einstein
- "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."