Excited Delirium

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Daily Archives: April 6, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 5 (Introduction to Griffith Garamond)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 5 of the my online book "Excited Delirium". Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index .

“We have to put a stop to the Internet,” Griffith Garamond scolded as he pumped two shells into a shotgun and sighted a clay pigeon as it whipped across the sky. “Plain” BLAM from the gun, “and simple,” BLAM from the gun again, this time successfully hitting his target, smashing it into a puff of dust.

Griffith, son of Grant Garamond, was one of North America’s richest men, but few Americans knew who he was. He made every effort to stay out of the public eye, a relatively easy accomplishment, given that he owned a network of media companies that had strict orders to keep anything to do with him out of the papers or off TV.

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The ‘Fruits’ of Organic

It’s a long read, but well worth it: Full Story Here.

We’re regularly told that bigger is better and that, if you’re a farmer (which I’m not), you have to use a witches brew of toxins and poisons.

The reality is that this has been a view foisted on us for about 50 years of industrialization of food production, or as long as tap of a drum in the song of human existence. Before farms were excessively commercialized, we managed quite well without pesticides, herbicides, hormones and other products that neutralized the effects of over-crowded barns and crop production.

As more folks discover that small and organic is OK, I think we’ll all be a little better off. The challenge will be ensuring that more producers have immediate access to consumers, rather than having to rely on large retailers that create very intentional bottlenecks between the two.

Cross Border Stopping: Winnipeg Woman Stopped From Crossing Border

Frequency is now an issue with cross-border activities.

In Winnipeg, a woman was stopped from going to her job in the US because ‘she wasn’t qualified in the first place’.

US security: Protecting Americans Jobs from Evil Canadian Labourers.

Just out of curiosity, where’s the Department of Foreign Affairs in all of this?

Full Story Here.