It was Saturday morning and time for breakfast. I pulled a few eggs from the refrigerator and began chopping potatoes for home fries. The skillet warmed on the stovetop as I sliced shallots and garlic to season the meal. But before the ingredients could enter the pan, I needed some butter. So Peter, my partner, poured some heavy cream into the mixer and flipped the switch. By the time I finished chopping, he had churned up some pale yellow butter to grease the skillet. Our 14-day experiment in extreme local eating -- "The Hundred-Mile Diet" -- was about to begin.
This challenge was
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Why Bank Of Wal-Mart Really Is A Bad Idea (Huffington Post)
Every now and then you pick up the newspaper and something blows your mind for its sheer lunacy. Quite often it's some inanity out of the mouth of a Bush administration official, but today's winner is David Leonhardt's column on the benefits of granting a bank charter to Wal-Mart on the front of the New York Times business section. I have no idea what the guy was inhaling when he sat down and started typing, but is he out of his freakin mind? So why's it dangerous for Wal-Mart
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