Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the water......

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Permalink Reply by Penelope on May 30, 2008 at 4:00pm

So, grain is the means by which the Machiavellian bastards hold us hostage!

I enjoyed the article -- and even better, enjoyed Adam Gopnik's in the NEW YORKER about Voltaire and the new biographies. That Gopnik comparies Voltaire to Susan Sontag and Michael Moore . . . love it.

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Permalink Reply by John Walker on May 30, 2008 at 4:58pm

read Richard Mannings book about agriculture 'Against the Grain'. Humanity has always been held hostage by food. RM hypothesises that the great wall of China was built in part to keep the Chinese IN.......

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Permalink Reply by Brook on May 30, 2008 at 8:08pm

So, John, what have I been saying right along!

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