Stuff below the fold

Need to learn to find and capture wild animals? RoboGoose to the rescue.

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Pinoy Bloggers comment on the former Defense chief's suicide. And the ManilaBulletin reports on the funeral, including our lovely ex president.

a good man whose worrk deeply involved him in a culture of corruption...

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What's past is prologue. When folks criticize Iran, they forget Cromwell's theocracy. And when governments fail to work, the result may not be reform but civil war as in the War of the Roses, as Shakespeare reminds us.

Another reason to continue funding the arts.

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Biotech crops to feed poor people, or keep the gov't money behind the "organic farming" craze?

Why not both? We'd love to sell our organic rice to Korea, but it's stupid to promote organic and then import rice from countries that use the latest biotech/green revolution/chemicals to get large and cheaper rice harvests.

The dirty little secret is that poor people can't afford to buy our organic brown rice.
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The HuffPost sale has getting a lot of folks noting she doesn't pay her bloggers: She's even been compared to using free galley slaves to get rich, but the NYTimes points out that most of what's on her post is crap, averaging only 500 views per post.

Hmmm...I get that many views than that on my BNN blog posts but they pay me (sometimes).

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Mugabe back to his old tricks of harassing his opponents in Zimbabwe. More HERE.

He has health problems, so what will happen when he gets his just rewards in the next life? The Big guy in the sky doesn't like it when you harass poor people and churches.