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Santa Monica Mountains, Feb 2011

Thought for the Minute

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Punishment

Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'

Q&A

How many stock brokers does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and sell it before it crashes

Not Really That Old News

The FDA Is Out to Lunch

The Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency charged with protecting our health, is a miserable failure—OnEarth.org

Low wages and high unemployment are paralyzing the global economy

The race to become "competitive" by lowering wages is killing us—The Real News

Fact check: Mitt Romney's convention speech

We're not calling him a liar, but...—CBS News

Your networth has tanked. Thank a Republican

Their "Get Obama at any cost" tactics have made our economic position far worse—AFL-CIO

Pennsylvania's Voter Suppression Laws

ACLU, others argue Pennsylvania's new photo ID law could thwart a million potential voters—McClatchy

Americans know squat about military spending

Americans are consistently misinformed about the amount we spend on the military--and many don't like the truth when they hear it.—Alternet

New Media - but Familiar Lack of Diversity

Women, people of color still marginalized online—FAIR

It's the Inequality, Stupid

Eleven charts that explain what's wrong with America.—Mother Jones

Whistling Past the Wreckage of Civil Liberties

Watchdogs slept through a decade of civil rights rollbacks—FAIR

Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoarding the Country's Wealth

With an unprecedented sum of wealth held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history.—Amped Status

People We Know

imamanga

Ima to Eien ni - Now and Forever: the comic

OblivionInk

Anime-style art from Ryan Bunter

Spage Age Polymers

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Always Thinking

Ted Talks

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

Health, Nutrition, Environment

Health Insurance

Concerned about your health insurance?—http://californiaonecare.org/

Global Warming: Really?

Complete with colorful graphs—InformationIsBeautiful.net

Start a Farmer's Market!

Can't find a farmers market near you? Here's a gude from the USDA

Nutrition Wonderland

An In-Depth Gudie to the World of Nutrition

Center for Food Safety

Promoting sustainable agriculture for health and envronment

eFoodAlert Blog

A daily digest of international outbreaks, alerts and food safety news

Food Safety News

Web-based newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety

Union of Concerned Scientists

Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions

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http://www.venturacountyfair.org/pages/3441/ Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 through Sunday, August 11th, 2013

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