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This is what it looked like a mile from my house.

SnowstormPost + Comments (12)

Just curious- any of you ever tried Broccosprouts? I went to buy my regular sprouts (I like ’em on salads and on sandwiches), and they were out, so I picked these up, and wow, are they zesty. Have a radish-like tang to them.

The only reason I bring this up is because this is the only food I remember ever buying that has been patented by a University, as these were created by Johns Hopkins. How will the anti-GM foods crowds handle stuff like this? Are these, in their eyes, bad?

*** Update ***

I should probably add that I REALLY liked them.

BroccosproutsPost + Comments (73)

If this is the last post ever at Balloon Juice, it is because I defied everything I ever learned in math and statistics courses and went ahead and bought some lottery tickets for the $300+ million powerball.

So, if you never hear from me again, it is because I am on a beach somewhere in the Carribean, where my only worries are booking flights to my other beach house when hurricanes (created in part by my unending loyalty to the Republican party polcies that caused global warming) might come too close to my primary beach house.

Oh- and folks at the lottery commission- I refuse to do any press conferences. I don’t want criminals to know what my newly rich ass looks like.

*** Update ***

I didn’t win. Press conferences remain a non-existent worry.

Just So You KnowPost + Comments (30)

What one food source is the single most important item to its region? And think the entire ecosystem.

For example- the date palm in the middle east, or pacific salmon, etc.

Just curious. There is no right answer-well, there may be a ‘right’ answer, but I don’t know what it is.

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I don’t mean what is most important to humans. I mean the regional ecosystem. If there were no more slamon, humans would get by, but it would devastate certain ecosystems. Same with date palms. Things like that are what I meant.

Quick QuestionPost + Comments (36)