Factory farms are breeding grounds for animal abuse and infectious disease. Even full-blown pandemics can be born in these massive, cramped warehouses of livestock. It's time that we end the cruel practice of factory farming once and for all.

“happy earth day!” the earth:

Your manly beef-based Manchester stouts, your unfailingly refreshing Mexican chicken lagers -- Biden's banning their importation. You'll be stuck drinking beers made from vegetable matter!

That time of the year when all the trees are nacho cheese flavored

Found some insane shit by a guy named Gabriel Kelemen while looking for info about spherical vortexes in fluid dynamics

"The automobile has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving & parked, it devours urban land, leaving buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous & ugly traffic." —James Marston Fitch, NY Times, 1960.

This is a case study on how to engage boys academically. They thrive from overcoming academic struggle or perceived competition much more than the menial busywork we tend to inundate them with.

"Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict."

Here at ML Plumbing, Inc. we don’t care about pipes. What’s much more important is good water, pipes take a secondary role.

What a good year to read Hamlet’s Mill

I spent a ton of time this year writing about "Code Art" from the olden times to the present. I'm going to share some of the bibliography for the olden stuff over the next few days... for fun :)

Settai Komura. Snowy Morning. 1942. Hanging on in there for the light. I love his work for the flat flat flatiness, but still depth.

finally reading House of Leaves

MY president

This rules. Like a mysterious metropolis from a Dying Earth story or a Spaghetti Western town being harassed by a gang of outlaws.