
The Ubiquitous Pig
Ubiquitous is a word that means "everywhere." We all know that there are lots of pigs in the world. Some good pigs like Wilbur in Charlotte's Web...and some bad pigs too, like the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm.
I have a picture of a beautiful Yorkshire hog diving off a board into a pretty county pond. The pig is smiling. He is a good pig. Good pigs are everywhere. Happy, friendly, useful pigs.
And then there are the bad pigs. Remember when you mother admonished you? "Don't be a pig!" she'd command. She was telling you not to be selfish, and to think of other people. Your mom (and my mom) hoped that we would consider the feelings and rights of other people.
This blog is about good things and bad things: good and bad things happening in Carroll County, good and bad books, good and bad food. Thanks for taking a look.
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- Check out Silver Sneakers (2/18/15)
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- Happy Thanksgiving! (11/20/14)
- <em>Transcendence</em>: See this Really Bad Bad Movie (11/14/14)
- Aqua-Terra Water Festival at the Basin (11/5/14)
- ES Farmers Market Begins Winter Market DEC. 4 (10/27/14)
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- Celebrate National Alpaca Days at Arrowpoint Farm (9/23/14)
- Following Lewis and Clark (9/18/14)
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- John Waters is <em>Carsick</em> (8/25/14)
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- Mariellen Griffith's <em>Journey In Nature</em>: A Review (7/9/14)
- Mamas, Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Writers (6/28/14)
- Rankine's 'Posy' a Peaceable Hit (6/22/14)
- Film School to Capture Berryville History (6/17/14)
- OZARTS offers Free Film Making Classes (6/9/14)
- <em>Drawn In: New Art from the WWII Camps at Rohwer and Jerome</em> (6/4/14)
- <em>The Good Luck of Right Now</em>: A Review (5/29/14)
- NWA Permaculture Study Group Formed (5/18/14)
- FOX TV's <em>Bones</em> Creator Headlines Books in Bloom (5/10/14)
- Sharon Laborde's <em>Murder at Canterbury Faire</em> (4/30/14)
- Recycle the Ozarks, One Board at a Time (4/25/14)1
- Build a Nacogdoches Rain Collector! (4/6/14)
- Community Garden Kicks Off 6th Season (3/31/14)1
- Ozarts Wants Your Old Computers (3/24/14)
- <em>The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism</em> (3/19/14)
- Americans Love--and Use--Public Libraries (3/13/14)
- SPRING EQUINOX CONCERT to be held MAR 21st (3/1/14)
- Local Farmers Protect Our Community's Food Security (2/17/14)2
- Daniel Woodrell's <em>The Maid's Version</em> (1/30/14)1
- A Short Riff on Cookbooks (1/24/14)
- 10 Books to Read in 2014 (1/9/14)
- Operation Pass Along at Hillspeak (1/3/14)
- A Short Tour of New Year's Day (12/25/13)
- Three Cookbooks for Christmas Gifts (12/8/13)
- <em>Starbuck,</em> the Movie (11/30/13)
- An Outstanding and Robust Tamale Pie (11/22/13)
- Crystal Bridges Celebrates Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (11/15/13)
- A Very Good Sweet Potato Bundt Cake (11/8/13)
- All About Community Gardens (11/1/13)
- A Fast and Easy Swedish Visiting Cake (10/25/13)
- A Review: <em>The Echo Maker</em> by Richard Powers (10/21/13)
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (10/12/13)
- It's Time for Garden Ground Covers (10/2/13)
- National Alpaca Farm Days at Arrowpoint Farm (9/24/13)
- Moosewood Restaurant's <em>Simple Suppers</em> (9/18/13)
- County Libraries Begin Strategic Planning (9/10/13)1
- A Delicious Turkey Fig Upside Down Cake (9/2/13)
- How About Free Municipal Wi-Fi? (8/26/13)
- The Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill (8/17/13)
- CC Literacy Council Introduces Literacy Forward (8/13/13)
- Ole Mole: A Good South of the Border Sauce (8/8/13)
- It's Time to Check Out Jo Nesbo (7/31/13)
- The Humble Burrito Becomes a Hit (7/20/13)
- Angels & Tomboys at Crystal Bridges (7/13/13)
- The Berryville Farmers Market--Every Saturday! (7/4/13)
- Opera in the Ozarks Celebrates 63rd Year (6/29/13)
- Take a Look at Bed and Tread Gardening (6/22/13)
- An Easy English Muffin Recipe (6/15/13)
- Opera in the Ozarks Visits Berryville (6/3/13)
- The Best Carrot Cake...Ever! (5/30/13)
- In Praise of Doing Things Badly (5/25/13)
- HI Farmers' Market Open Fridays (5/17/13)
- The Extra Man and the Odd World of Independent Film (5/7/13)
- Snap Shot of a Neighborhood (4/29/13)
- Berryville's Out of Control Animal Population (4/18/13)
- Bridging the Gap--Saturday Night! (4/17/13)
- Big Changes at the BV Library (4/13/13)1
- What is a Community Garden? (4/8/13)
- New Life for an Old Privacy Fence (4/3/13)
- Loretta Tanner's Chocolate Throw Together Cake (3/29/13)
- David Bell Inspires, Informs, HI Photo Guild (3/26/13)
- A Never-Fail, No Fuss Pie Crust (3/20/13)
- Showy and Easy Peanut Butter Sheet Cake (3/13/13)
- CC Literacy Council: Reading--and so Much More! (3/7/13)
- Alexander Virden Needs Your Help (2/26/13)
- Build a Mini-Greenhouse! (2/19/13)1
- Adventurous Asian Style Chicken Soup (2/5/13)
- A Pretty Good Carrot Bread Recipe (1/30/13)
- Llama Manure is...Llama-licious! (1/23/13)
- The Khan Academy--Not Just for Kids (1/14/13)1
- The Winter Market is Going Strong (1/10/13)
- Italian for Beginners: A Review (12/31/12)
- Beebe Proclaims January 2013 Ag Census Month (12/28/12)
- A New Year's Eve Italian Cream Cake (12/26/12)
- Dave Buttgen Conducts the Disciples Christmas Contata (12/21/12)
- How to Make a Memory Stick (12/12/12)
- Fast and Fail Safe Holiday Brownies (12/6/12)
- <em>The Hobbit</em> and Other Mistakes (12/4/12)
- Carroll County Fresh 2012 Photo Contest Winners (11/25/12)
- Skip French's "10 Steps to a Richer Prayer Life." (11/19/12)
- Jim Young's "10 Tips for Living Spiritually" (11/17/12)
- Foncannon Stephenson Premiers New Christmas CD (11/12/12)
- A Pretty Good Bundt Cake (11/4/12)
- HI Theater Guild Presents <em>Harvey</em> (10/28/12)
- Senate Bean Soup (10/21/12)
- A Short Riff on Poetry (10/12/12)
- These Might be Bran Muffins (10/5/12)1
- What Are You Reading? (9/25/12)
- The Problem of Bullying (9/15/12)
- White House Burning: A Review (9/4/12)1
- Belling the Cat (8/26/12)
- Beautiful Mesa Verde (8/21/12)
- Dr. Einstein's Perscription (8/13/12)
- Paul Ryan, and a Bit of Magical Thinking (8/11/12)1
- HI Rotary Club Supports Literacy (8/7/12)
- Charming Hootie Schoolhouse Wedding (8/4/12)1
- Make an Adirondack Chair (7/30/12)
- Green Tomato Pie - Oh My! (7/24/12)
- On Cookbooks (7/20/12)
- Population and Migration (7/14/12)
- Korova Cookies (7/7/12)
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable (7/1/12)
- Ken Aden's Problem is His Party's Problem (6/30/12)1
- HI Photographers Focus on Food (6/26/12)
- Bubble and Squeak (6/17/12)
- Politics, and the Right Kind of Christian (6/16/12)2
- Top 10 Reasons for Entering a Monastery (6/13/12)
- Our Food System--and How to Change It (6/7/12)
- How We Learn to Read (6/2/12)
- Would You Take Your Dog to a Vet Who Hated Dogs? (5/29/12)
- In Defense of the Gothic (5/25/12)
- God, Sex, Power and Money (5/21/12)
- Eat Your Zipcode (5/15/12)
- Appropriate Technology, Open Source Blueprints (5/7/12)
- Some Thoughts About Sermons (5/1/12)3
- The Holiday Island Lutherans--Reviewed! (4/27/12)
- Magical Thinking in District 97 (4/21/12)1
- Butch Berry Wants Your Vote (4/15/12)1
- Bell's Big Carrot Cake (4/11/12)
- Loaves & Fishes, Moral Hazard, and Shortages (4/8/12)2
- Sex and Church Leadership (4/3/12)
- I've Got Mine. How About You? (4/1/12)
- The Carroll County Literacy Council: A Pathway to Citizenship (3/29/12)
- Dawson Stice, Junior Master Gardener! (3/25/12)
- Reviewing the Berryville United Methodists (3/19/12)
- Eddie Keever to Join Carroll County News (3/10/12)
- Church Fights and Other Mistakes (3/8/12)
- The Devil and the Holy Spirit (2/27/12)
- Richard and Jane Pille in the Garden (2/25/12)
- Some Formidable Women (2/22/12)
- My Life of Crime (2/2/12)2
- A Thick Crust Pizza for the Super Bowl (1/29/12)
- Doug Stowe and The Wisdom of the Hands (1/25/12)1
- Obama's Cynical Keystone Dithering (1/21/12)
- Cardiac Rehab and the Road Ahead (1/17/12)
- Mitt Romney and Creative Destruction (1/12/12)1
- Crystal Bridges, the New York Times, and Lunch (1/6/12)
- Get on Top of YOUR Money in 2012 (1/2/12)
- The 7 Secrets of the Highly Prolific by Hillary Rettig (12/28/11)
- Ramen Noodle Salad ala Kari Keever (12/26/11)
- Sensational Salsas by Jim Long: A Review (12/22/11)
- 10 Books for 2012 (12/14/11)
- Help Me Help Myself: A Review (12/13/11)1
- The Table Rock Review (12/11/11)
- Biscotti Urbanette (12/5/11)
- Carroll Electric Needs to Lighten Up (11/29/11)4
- The Religious Affiliation Of Presidential Candidates (11/17/11)
- Sharon Sloan's South Texas Black Bean Chili (11/16/11)
- Lena Richard's Creole Cheese Biscuits (11/8/11)1
- Small Farms Face Production Dilemma (11/7/11)
- Womack Tells Area Food Shelves To Go Hang (11/5/11)6
- Two Novels and One Fairy Tale (10/31/11)2
- The Problem of Missional Churches (10/29/11)1
- Why ObamaCare is Not DOA (10/24/11)1
- Jeremy Miller & Bill Coleman Have Some Explaining to Do. (10/20/11)
- Who are the Occupy Wall Streeters, and What do they Want? (10/18/11)
- Dorie Greenspan's Scones (10/16/11)
- Government Haters, Magical Thinkers, and Cynical Users (9/26/11)
- Harvesting the Good Life (9/20/11)1
- Grandview's Virden Pens Novel (9/2/11)
- St. John's and Wildfire Farm Grow Healthy Food Choices (8/26/11)
- New Workforce Development Resource (7/24/11)
- Catholic Bashing (7/12/11)5
- Tyson - Hmong Story in Context (7/1/11)
- Community Organizers (6/5/11)
- Guns and Butter (5/19/11)
- Eddie Keever Presents <em> The Ozark Harvest Radio Hour</em> (4/28/11)
- News from Obamaramaland (4/26/11)
- Hats off to State Rep. Bryan King (4/17/11)
- Our Merriest Pranksters (4/6/11)
- In Praise of Ron Flake (3/27/11)
- Deconstruct This (3/24/11)
- We All Live Downstream (3/14/11)
- Small Farms and Farm Subsidies (2/2/11)
- Carroll County Fresh Holds Annual Meeting (1/11/11)
- The Job Creation Fairy Tale (1/4/11)
- The Best of Berryville (12/22/10)
- Counterfeit Hell Robbers (12/9/10)1
- Political Victims (12/8/10)
- How to Term Limit Lunatics (11/27/10)1
- Pray for Andy Harris (11/22/10)
- MEET YOUR FARMER--Nov. 20th Celebration (11/8/10)
- Conversations on Collapse by Kevin Michael O'Connor (10/8/10)
- Wonder Woman--At an Address Near You! (9/29/10)
- Why the New Public Facilities Board Will Fail (9/17/10)
- Godspeed, Paul & Marie Andresen (9/1/10)
- How to Write a Grant (8/18/10)
- Fresh! (8/11/10)
- Red State vs. Blue State (7/21/10)
- Good Old Boys...and Bad Old Boys (6/29/10)2
- <em>Leatherstone,</em> By David Pabian: A Review (6/15/10)
- All Literature is Gossip (5/18/10)
- Update: Haiti (5/1/10)
- A Month of Sundays (4/15/10)
- In Praise of Doing Things Badly (3/17/10)
- The Best Lack All Conviction (3/6/10)1
- The Dick Gibson Show (2/8/10)2
- Stephen King and <em>Under the Dome</em> (1/25/10)2
- Tim McKinney, Downtown, and So Long (1/16/10)1
- 10 Books to Read in 2010 (12/24/09)1
- The Age of Miracles (12/5/09)
- Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (11/19/09)
- Consult the Genius of the Place (11/6/09)
- The Awkward Age (10/21/09)
- On Deafness and the Middle Distance (10/13/09)
- Off My Nut in Johannesburg (9/27/09)
- Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce (9/14/09)
- My Mother, Drunk or Sober (9/1/09)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (8/29/09)
- The Quiet Power of Carroll County Fresh (8/19/09)
- Why People Collect Books (7/25/09)
- Third Wave Feminism (6/25/09)1
- Manscaping (6/10/09)
- The Problem With Food Shelves (5/26/09)
- Skip French is Leaving Town (5/18/09)1
- Get Some Perspective! (5/15/09)
- HI Theatre Guild Knocks 'Em Dead! (4/20/09)
- On Public Intellectuals and Fools (4/16/09)
- The Uses of Poetry (4/4/09)1
- That's the Girl for Me! (3/15/09)
- Ideas and Opinions (3/6/09)
- An Interview with USDA's Tom Vilsack (2/19/09)
- Angels Can Fly Because they Take Themselves Lightly (2/12/09)
- Thinking Globally and Other Nonsense (1/30/09)
- Yes We Can...From Friends Abroad (1/22/09)
- Taking Charge (1/2/09)
- Poets in Their Youth (12/26/08)1
- Hard Times (12/20/08)
- On Deafness, Part II (12/13/08)1
- What Are You Reading These days? (12/4/08)1
- The Omnivore's Dilemma (11/21/08)
- The Last Hurrah (11/12/08)
- A Month of Sundays (10/27/08)
- On the Great American Novel (10/23/08)
- An Absence of Earth (10/9/08)
- Self Help and Other Fool's Errands (9/27/08)
- Letter from Malawi (9/17/08)
- Touring the Ozarks, One Crime at a Time (9/11/08)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (9/4/08)
- On Eric Hoffer and Public Maintenance (8/28/08)
- The Ogallala Blues (8/26/08)
- Why we need a Healthier, Smarter Food System--and how to get it (8/15/08)4
- In Defense of the Gothic (8/11/08)