I previously made my feelings known about Tom Vilsack’s appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, and I stand by it now more than ever. What in the world is Barack Obama thinkin’? Vilsack has been in Monsanto’s pockets since he was old enough to reach their pockets (and for them to reach his). Why all this vitriol from Nurse Nancy? Because I’ve been looking into Monsanto, and the more I look, the more I am convinced that they are just as vile as the people who brought us waterboarding and cluster bombs. They’re just less visible (to the mainstream media), and more insidious. Continue Reading »

I just read an article by Deepak Chopra that was carried by the Wall Street Journal. That’s right, THE WSJ! Now, it was in the ‘Opinion’ section, but the fact that WSJ printed it at all hints that a sea-change is in the works. If you’d like to read that article, it’s “‘Alternative’ Medicine is Mainstream” in the January 9, 2009 edition. I won’t go into a lot of paraphrasing, because Chopra presents the case so much better than I ever could. I do, however hope that President-elect Obama and his appointees Tom Vilsack and Dr. Sanjay Gupta take a gander at it.

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