by David Gumpert | Jan 5, 2017 | What's New |
When government regimes change, the people with the best noses for where things are headed are usually the bureaucrats. They spend years, even decades, watching politicians of all stripes come and go, and learn to read the tea leaves. Right now, we are...
by David Gumpert | Jan 3, 2017 | What's New |
“I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…” Johnny Cash, in “Folsom Prison Blues” “I did it (sued a journalist) to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about.” Donald Trump, in a 2016 interview Folk-rock singer Johnny Cash’s 1955 song, “Folsom Prison...
by David Gumpert | Dec 23, 2016 | What's New |
A few days ago, Organic Valley, the huge Wisconsin-based dairy cooperative, ran a “holiday season” ad on Facebook offering discount coupons of $1.50 or $2 on butter, cheese, and eggs (not $5, as the ad suggests). I guess it’s not a huge surprise that thousands of...
by David Gumpert | Dec 19, 2016 | What's New |
I’ve been trying to figure out why this election has affected me so deeply. It’s had me feeling at once angry, despondent, frustrated, unable to write and, most of all, with a huge sense of loss. I try to tell myself, it’s just a new politician. I’ve seen many...
by David Gumpert | Nov 28, 2016 | What's New |
I started this blog ten years ago to report on events and issues I thought the mainstream news media were either ignoring or misrepresenting when it came to regulation of small farms, and especially small dairy farms distributing raw milk. In the process, I poked both...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2016 | What's New |
On November 9, the day after the election, Eric Tucker, an Austin businessman, noticed a group of buses parked in a lot not far from where demonstrations against Donald Trump’s election were going on. When he couldn’t find any notices on Google of conferences in the...
by David Gumpert | Nov 11, 2016 | What's New |
Editor’s note: Three days after this post appeared, a spokesperson for the Weston A. Price Foundation committed to correcting the error I describe here. Details at the end of this post and in a comment following this post. The current issue of Wise Traditions...
by David Gumpert | Nov 2, 2016 | What's New |
Easton is a pretty little town in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, on the border with New Jersey, with trendy restaurants and coffee houses. But yesterday, it was the host to a not-so-pretty court hearing at the U.S. District Court on the matter of a...
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