farmers
The Mystery of the Exploding Chinese Watermelons
Max Read · 05/17/11 07:25PMA rash of inexplicable watermelon explosions has stricken melon farmers in eastern China. Experts are baffled! Is this the start of the coming apocalypse?
Al Gore Never Loved Your Dumb Corn Gas, Iowa
Jim Newell · 11/22/10 05:37PMVerlyn Klinkenborg: Still a Menace
Hamilton Nolan · 09/27/10 02:05PMMan Jumps In Hay Tractor, Emerges as a Human Bale
John Siegel · 08/26/10 04:19PMWell, this isn't something you see every day. Watch as a man runs in front of a hay baler, strips down completely, enters the back of it and emerges a literal bale of hay. Where do these people come from?
French Turn Champs Elysees into Farmland
Max Read · 05/23/10 07:58PMGod Save Us From Japan's Farmer Shock Troops
Hamilton Nolan · 04/15/09 11:36AMNews, Nature, And New York City: A Plea To Verlyn
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/08 02:34PMThough he does not know it, Verlyn Klinkenborg is my nemesis. He's a member of the New York Times editorial board. Like all of the board's members, he has the privilege of using the most valuable op-ed space in American newspapers as a bulletin board for his personal musings. Verlyn takes advantage of this power to write regular items about "The Rural Life," all of which I can summarize as follows: "As I strolled through the country or gazed out my window, I saw nature, which I ruminated upon. Tra la, tra la, tra la." If I have to open up the Sunday paper one more time and see a chunk of editorial page real estate occupied by an "Editorial Notebook" essay inspired solely by window-gazing, I simply don't know what I will do. So Verlyn: I'd like to offer you a gentleman's agreement.