When an insecure third grader wants to be accepted by his schoolmates, and he is afraid that they will see and identify his lowly origins — by which he means his folks and the rest of his family — the way he tries to insinuate himself into the good graces of the cool set that …
The Whole Hipster Food Industry
Been a while since I posted on this topic, but something has been rolling around in my mind for a few days, and I thought it would be good to put at least the bare outlines of this down. This will be in the form of some simple assertions and observations — detailed argument will …
More Bread
I linked to a picture of the Palouse wheat fields yesterday. Here is a pic taken by a friend, with the wheat the color it is now (HT: Rob Sentz). That’s still a lot of bread.
That’s a Lot of Bread
As I continue to labor manfully away with my machete in the jungles of foodism, a former student has written me a thoughtful set of questions that I thought would be good to address here. First, he agrees that idols need to be rejected, period. “So I agree with the necessity in honoring God as …
The Whole Fairy Ring
It has been a spell since I have written much on food issues, but it has never been far from my mind. And then the brief post yesterday reminded how important the whole issue is. The world is full of friendly rivalries, and when they get unfriendly in any serious way, most people observing can …
A Small Can of Corn
Come now certain pesky scientists who have shown that organic food isn’t any more nutritional than the kind that has had the bugs sprayed off (HT: Joe Rigney). But all is not lost. We can still feel superior, which is the thing we are fundamentally hungry for. Organic food production is much better on the …
Evil Skews Everything
Sorry for the category this is under. Closest I have. In the course of our discussions of Medicare, and inconsistent Christian use of the same, I made a passing reference to Medicare use by “hobbyist” midwives. Discussion on this point rapidly developed into its very own sideshow, deteriorating rapidly from the point about government aid …
Unbread from Unfathers
I have written in this thread before that many of our contemporary food oddities are little more than thinly disguised manifestations of father hunger. Of course, father hunger manifests itself in other pathological ways than food issues — sexual promiscuity, to name just one — but sure it is no coincidence that this era of …
Diluted Homeopathic Training
In the latter part of the nineteenth century, a gentleman named Robert Koch developed a series of postulates to help identify the causal agents for various diseases. The basic outlines of this approach were that, first, the germ had to be found abundantly in every patient and in every diseased tissue; second, the germ must …
A Tenuous Grasp on the Rules of Evidence
What would you say if someone told you that you could determine whether or not you were allergic to peanut butter, or peanuts for that matter, by putting a dollop of peanut butter on the back of your right hand and extending it out parallel to the floor? And that if you could keep your …