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FRIDAY SURPRISE: Stuff happens. Don't let it happen to you.

Friday, March 11, 2011 Filed in: Friday Surprise!

I've been a little peeved this week at the news outlets. While the Middle East is destabilizing and governments here at home experience financial and leadership deficits, the main story for many 'journalists' has been of the most shallow nature: the mental and emotional short-circuiting of a two-bit Hollywood denizen whose initials are 'C.S.'

Sheesh.

In light of the incredible earthquake in Japan last night, the distraction that the Friday Surprise exists to provide seems a tad shallow as well. Today, I'd like to instead remind everyone that it's not always all about the gun.

Sometimes, it's about the first aid kit.

Sometimes, it's about the shortwave radio.

Sometimes, it's about the camp stove.

Sometimes, it's about the water purifier.

Sometimes, it's about the emergency generator.

Sometimes, it's about the stored food.

Sometimes, it's about the solar battery charger.

I know that your neighbors laugh at these things; heck, there are probably more than a few readers of this blog who laugh at such things. To those people I simply ask: if that happened here, would you still be laughing?

-=[ Grant ]=-

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FRIDAY SURPRISE: Seedy characters.

Friday, February 19, 2010 Filed in: Friday Surprise!

Lots of folks, concerned with anything from global warming to economic collapse, are recommending that you have a garden. What's more, most of them say, you should be planting only non-hybrid varieties and saving the seed from those plants. Only by doing that can you hope to be self sufficient, or so the theory goes.

Whether you think such advice to be prescient or kooky, there are people who do this on a grand scale. Read The New Yorker's story about the global seed bank.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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