Agricultural outsourcing
Some US farms are outsourcing to Mexico, to the tune of 45000 acres (Posted 2008/5/27--0)

Are religions cultural artifacts?
The Neural Buddhists “In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate. The real challenge is going to come from people who feel the existence of the sacred, but who think that particular religions are just cultural artifacts built on top of universal human traits. It’s going to come from scientists whose beliefs overlap a bit with Buddhism.” (Posted 2008/5/13--0)

Parvati wins
Did anyone ever have a more appropriate last name than Parvati Shallow? (Posted 2008/5/11--0)