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    Cuba in the Pacific - by frog



    The Hive is looking on worried at six Cuban doctors working for free in Vanuatu.  Presumably it is worried about some sort of communist domino effect in the Pacific, as that is the sort of thing foreign affairs bureaucrats are paid to worry about.  And maybe the Hive is on to something – there are [...] read more
    August 12, 2008 10:10 am - 7 Comments
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    Michael Pollan - by frog



    Sue Kedgley has just put up this video of a conversation she had with one of my favourite food writers, Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. read more
    August 12, 2008 9:37 am - 4 Comments
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    A week of g.blog - by frog



    Toad has found out that the National Party’s beneficiary policy is worse than I suggested this morning: They are not just going to work-test people on DPB, but also those on Invalid’s Benefit (qualification: “permanently and severely restricted in his or her capacity for work because of sickness, or because of injury or disability from [...] read more
    August 11, 2008 1:54 pm - 2 Comments
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    Pollan asks ‘why bother?’ - by frog



    One of my current favourite political authors, Michael Pollan is on his way to New Zealand to promote his new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. On Sunday he had an opinion piece in the New York Times where he asks that dark question that troubles many  environmentally aware people – why bother [...] read more
    April 22, 2008 9:06 am - 7 Comments