To Be Titled

Striving to be a good dad, a good husband, a good son/brother, a good political scientist, a good photographer, a good cook and a good homo universalis.

Shopping: Keeping It Local

Whether the reasons are environmental or economic, the movement toward shopping local stuff has both a progressive side and a regressive side. The movement is purportedly for improving local and global welfare but doing so in a way that turns communities less interdependent and more autarkic. [From The Economist]