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Enter the pod.

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The thing is, you have to take a crowbar to the lid, like this. Unggh. Unggggh. Arrrgh! Okay, that's harder than it looks. Oh, hi, stalwart friends of Big Green. It is I, Joe of Big Green. Just caught me in the process of trying to get the lid off of the latest episode of THIS IS BIG GREEN , our very popular (in the plant kingdom) monthly podcast, just posted over the last couple of days and ready for download. We want to give people an idea of what they can expect when they download this sucker - all 1 hour and 45 minutes of it, or thereabouts. Wouldn't want you having to cope with a pig in a poke, especially a porker of those dimensions. You have a right to know what's in that great big bag of stupid... and know you shall. Here's what's included in March Fiendraiser 2013 (our bogus fundraising episode), to wit: Ned Trek VIII: The Corn of Ozark Five - Captain Willard Mittillius Romney and First Officer Mr. Ned (the talking dressage horse) are invited dow

Ten years after.

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It's been a decade since the start of a war that never should have happened, and we are still waiting for some accountability. More than 4,400 Americans killed - more than the number killed on Sept. 11 2001 by 19 individuals from countries other than Iraq. (Mostly from Saudi, but you get the point.) Estimates are in the hundreds of thousands for Iraqi deaths related to the conflict - Les Roberts' Iraq Study Group had it well north of 600,000 back in 2006, and that was adjusting for concentrated areas of losses like Fallujah. That puts us in Milosovic territory for sure, and more like Suharto-land. The Serbian leader was brought to justice; not so much Indonesia's dictator. The difference between those two cases have less to do with the magnitude of the crimes, more to do with the magnitude of their geopolitical allies. That's why I have long been a skeptic of the International Criminal Court. I have said this before, shouted it on the podcast , and I will say it ag

This Is Big Green: March Fiendraiser 2013

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Big Green shakes the tree of perpetual folly with three previously unreleased tracks, a new episode of Ned Trek, and shameless kvetching. Give generously.   Features: 1) Ned Trek VIII: The Corn of Ozark Five; 2) Put the phone down: Matt and Joe shake the tin cup for freedom; 3) Happy birthday, universe; 4) Departures and arrivals: Chavez, Achebe, Pearle, and others; 5) Song: Quality Lincoln (lame live version), by Big Green; 6) Song: Come Back Home (demo version), by Big Green; 7) More bogus fundraising; 8) Song: Round Up (demo version), by Big Green; 9) Conversations at the seed store; 10) Song: The Milkman Lives, by Big Green; Go to download page >