Monthly Archives: October 2011
FREE RANGE: FOOD, NATURE, PLACE, AND MORE
The Alliance conference: our first time in the Second City
The Windy City. Hog Butcher for the World. City of the Big Shoulders. The Second City. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and Harry Caray’s “Holy cow!” Richard Daley and Mike Ditka. Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Frank Lloyd Wright and Al Capone. … Continue reading
Edsels and the Enlightenment: the downside of corporate personhood
A headline in Monday’s Austin American-Statesman reported that the Texas Senate is poised for a political shift as four veteran conservative Republican senators step down before the 2012 election cycle. According to the article, those seats could easily go to … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin American-Statesman, corporations, Enlightenment, Ford Edsel, George Will, liberalism, Rick Perry, The New Yorker
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Beyond the bottom line
During our recent backpacking trip across northern England, my buddy Bruce and I overcame mild hypothermia, frightening falls, nearly constant rain, gale-force winds, aching feet and ankles and knees, multiple blisters, blackened toenails, and one extremely crummy hotel with no … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Box, capitalism, economics, England, locally owned business, The New Yorker
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