When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. Theres more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? Whats their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? – Jerry Brown
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. – Lou Krieger
As a matter of fact, have you never noticed that most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness? – Margaret Millar, The Weak-Eyed Bat, 1942
