Monthly Archives: May 2008

High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their … Continue reading →

Spam: Sales rise as consumers trim food costs: Love it, hate it or laugh at it — at least it’s inexpensive. Sales of Spam — that much maligned meat — are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats … Continue reading →

You know the pantry is getting bare when you’re down to the jar of marshmallow fluff. That happens at food pantries too: The Emergency Food Bank of Stockton, which operates out of a cavernous warehouse at the fringe of town, … Continue reading →

Interesting story the other day in the Chicago Tribune on grease: In the era of alternative fuels, grease is turning into a pretty slick investment. Restaurants increasingly are being paid for their used cooking oil, icky stuff that historically they’ve … Continue reading →

If we had the luxury of sarcasm when it comes to peak oil, I might read the comments on posts like this and say something like: Syzgus is right – the idea that oil is finite is absolutely ludicrous. And … Continue reading →

Someone asked an interesting question, “It would seem obvious that it wouldn’t be proper to profit from owning a morally reprobate stock, e.g. Playboy. What about profiting from the demise of a morally reprobate stock, e.g. Selling Short, Put Options, … Continue reading →

Those folks at Path To Freedom sure are inspiring… last year they produced over 6,000 pounds of produce on a tenth of an acre in urban Pasadena. How’d your garden do? We’ve got a ways to go – but we’re … Continue reading →

What good news are we spreading to the world on Sundays? So Larry Miller, the owner of the Utah Jazz and a Mormon, will not attend Jazz games on the Sabbath. He profits from these games considerably, but never mind. … Continue reading →

Absentee owners, often innocent shareholders who invest through ever-changing portfolios so they have no idea whether they own nuclear weapons or socks, kill thousands with coal dust, asbestos, or chemical clouds, while at home in their tidy suburb they wear … Continue reading →

I’m not a fan of Churchill by any stretch of the imagination, but I saw this quote recently and thought it was good: Fancy cutting down all those lovely trees to make pulp for bloody newspapers and calling it civilization. … Continue reading →