Caught My Eye

• La Migra or Kidnap Cartels? "A teacher who spoke on the condition of anonymity estimated that of the town’s 400 houses, about 200 were now vacant, with 50 of them emptied in recent weeks. About half of the departing families left for the United States, he said, while the rest sought safety elsewhere in Mexico."
• Drive Less, Tax More "Government, through the CAFE standards, tells us we should use less fuel. Drive lighter cars and trucks. Conserve. Now, these dumbasses are upset that we're conserving. They want to tax it."
• Death by Food Safety Standards "In October, the FDA announced that no level of melamine was safe in infant formulas, and it would test samples. Hearing no results, the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request. Oops. A trace of melamine - 0.14 milligram per kilogram of body weight - turned up in one of 87 samples. At that point, the FDA pronounced infant formulas safe if they contained no more than 1 milligram melamine per kilogram."

Knowledge Base

• Accidental Smallholder Farming the Banks of the River Forth
• CalculatedRisk Finance & Economics
• Chews Wise Samuel Fromartz Shines a Light on the Food System
• Environmental Capital The Business of the Environment
• Garden Rant Uprooting the Gardening World
• Granny Miller A Journal of Agrarian Politics, Philosophy and Practice
• The Green Grok Causes of, and Potential Remedies For, Environmental Change
• Greg Mankiw Random Observations for Students of Economics
• Jim Romenesko Your Daily Media News Fix
• The Kicker News is Made Like Sausage
• Michael Ruhlman Notes from the Food World
• The Oil Drum Discussions About Energy and Our Future
• Tropical Biodiversity An old gringo at his forest reserve near Santarém - Pará - Brazil

Local Color

• The Brazosport News Official Weblog for the Petrochemical Underarm of Texas
• From My Corner of Katy A Texas Cottage Garden Just Up the Road
• Gulf Coast Texas Blog Life outdoors on the Gulf is to be enjoyed.
• Half Empty Hal's political viewpoint from Richmond
• Kiss My Big Blue Butt Political observations from somewhere very near the World's Most Dangerous Hair Salon
• Laurie Kendrick Fresh Hell from Houston
• Mouth of the Brazos Just like the river - anything really could be in here
• Realty News Report Ralph Bivins Reports on Real Estate
• Sideburn Sally This Needville chick that like, you know, does stuff.
• Texas Watchdog Serving as the eyes, ears and canine teeth of the Texas public.