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Consumers Skeptical Of Organic 'Hippie Wine'

When it comes to wine, 'green' labels just don't pack the same financial wallop that they do for low-energy appliances and organically grown produce. A new study has found that organic labels actually decrease the price consumers are willing ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2023 - 7:34pm

Etterminnetiden: People Who Never Knew A 'Fascist' Use The Term Often, And That Is A Problem

In almost every case, someone being called a Nazi or Fascist on Twitter is being called such by someone who never knew any of those, and is probably a second or third generation descendant who didn't know any either. I had one grandfather who went acr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2023 - 10:31am

UPDATE: As A Matter Of Principle Every Blogger In the USA Should Write About Ron DeSantis. HE Disavows The bill.

F ascism is a term that has been used to a point of near meaninglessness in the United States of America. The left tortured the meaning of it to apply it to George Bush to such a degree that its new meaning would also apply to Barrack Obama. This leaves u ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 12 2023 - 9:11pm

Sacramento, Cycling And Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong will be in my neighborhood tomorrow but he won't be coming by for coffee.  It's the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California, starting in Nevada City and ending in Sacramento 104 miles later. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2023 - 6:07pm

5 Days Of Halloween Movies: "Five Million Years To Earth"

You may not know the name Hammer Films, but if you have watched movies at all you have probably heard of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.    In 1957 they appeared in a British 'horror' movie called THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and it put both of t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 6 2023 - 5:14pm

California's Newest Prop 65 Cancer Warning Is On...Trees

Tourists are not alarmed by Proposition 65 cancer warnings on nearly every product in every store in California, it quickly becomes a joke to them. Scientists in California warned that would happen while trial lawyers behind the referendum insisted it woul ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 2:49pm

A Personal Update: The Day To Day Work Of One Physicist.

A brief personal update as to what I have been doing.  There has been much interesting science news to discuss.    A possible galaxy comprised of not much more than gas and dark matter with no stars. Many other things in astronomy and physics.  Things I mi ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Nov 2 2023 - 10:39pm

BeautifulPeople.Com Thinks The Virgin Mary Was One Of Its Members

BeautifulPeople.com, the dating community exclusively for good-looking people, is offering the chance to win a date with Joseph and the Virgin Mary- namely by spending a lot of money.  Well, not really the Virgin Mary, they don't want frogs raining o ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2023 - 7:57am

Organic Consumers Association Continues To Be The Embarrassing Stepchild Of The Organic Industry

Organic Consumers Association has opened a new front in their culture war against science- now they say organic food itself is too science-y. Don't they represent organic farmers? No. Unlike Organic Trade Association, the mainstream trade group create ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2023 - 10:12am

Happy Festivus- Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances

December 23rd is 'Festivus', a not-real holiday invented by the father of George Costanza on the hit television show "Seinfeld", involving an aluminum pole, feats of strength, and, most fun, an airing of grievances.(1) It's the air ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 20 2023 - 10:35am