The author of Civitas and I have returned home from our 10-day train trip (celebrating our 10th Anniversary...) and I've had food + politics on my mind. Today's online publication of The Bloomington Alternative is right in keeping with many of the reasons for the thoughts pervasively nagging at me...peak oil, peak water, land use issues, etc...that last one there, land use, being what all issues, particularly political & policy related, boil down to.

It's difficult to get folks simmering over land use issues, particularly where they intersect with how things are determined by Monroe County Government. On pin-the-tail I've written numerous entries about land use under categories like Planning/Plan Commission, Garden Cities, "local flavor," etc.

Articles about food and cooking seem to generate a lot of enthusiasm from online commentators...so it goes...the way to person's, or constituent's heart is through food...of course!

Today, this Nov. 18th, I have a shameless plug for The Bloomington Alternative on pin-the-tail that includes Civitas author's and my favorite dialogue from the movie Sleeper (in which a progressive guy played by Woody Allen wakes up in the future...) and my Nov. 17th's entry titled "Nutritious politics, enlightenment," (on pin-the-tail) has some shameless plugs for local-regional places where you can find local foods...

Bon Appétit, or, as I like to say in Korean, "잘 먹겠습니다!"

p.s. And you thought catching up & ketchup had no political connotations? And, yes, I do like ketchup on my eggs!