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gretawire.foxnews.com - 5/11/2009

So I Am Now a “Handler” for Showing Good Manners at a Social Event ? (and a ...

— gretawire.foxnews.com — First, remember I did not start this little spat and have no interest in having a spat.... I am merely responding and setting the record straight. Gossip on the internet is viral and I will respond when things are written that are brought to my ... (more) So I Am Now a “Handler” for Showing Good ...

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Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler On Food, Fuel and Why He Became A Vegan
The Latest on Air America — I grew up in Woodland Hills, Calif., a nominally pastoral, petrocentric Los Angeles suburb, so peak oil prognosticator James Howard Kunstler's dim view of our car-crazed culture really resonates with me. Kunstler's relentless skewering of suburbia, and his penchant for apocalyptic predictions have landed him a reputation as a cranky Cassandra. But as Ben McGrath observed while strolling around Saratoga Springs with Kunstler for a recent New Yorker piece, "Far from the image of the stereotypical Chicken Little, he was more like an amiable town crier whom the citizenry regarded fondly, if a bit skeptically." So, when a friend and I found ourselves headed ...

Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler on Food, Fuel and Why He Became an Almost Vegan
Open Left - Front Page — ... "third places" (gathering places) for the working classes (and lower) -- and remember, it is the working classes and poor who are way disproportionately obese. The people portrayed in Vanity Fair Magazine are not fat.  I suspect that the amount of time Americans spend in their cars is roughly proportionate to the amount of time French people spend at the table. Fast food is not a new phenomenon in the USA, however.  Frances Trollope's sensational travel book of the 1830s, "The Domestic Manners of the Americans" dwells on the horrifying spectacle of our hotel dining ...