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News reporters tend to mingle with a wider variety of people than those in most other professions. I happen to know this because for 15 years before Mark Twain tapped me on the shoulder, I was a radio reporter, a malnourished profession at the time that I might have killed-off single-handedly.

Farmers have always been the worlds busiest, hardest-working people. Farmers are perhaps the only people whose profession commands universal respect. Between milking the cows in the morning and getting that milk to market, and collecting the eggs at days end and getting those eggs to market, who has time to date?

The chefs of GUT will host a five-course meal with wine pairings on Sunday, April 23 at The Carriage House, 125 S. Arizona Avenue.

Celebrate Eid al-Fitr with these recipes for a feast, including a Lamb Tagine, Lahmacun, Tandoori Chicken, Saffron Helva, and more.

If we are what we eat, well, today we can become a previously extinct prehistoric animal that nobody has seen for thousands of years. Yes the Aussies have created a humongous meatball made entirely of wooly mammoth meat grown in a laboratory.

UPDATE 3:39PM: The Monarch Fire is approximately 2,500 acres and currently 5 percent contained. No structures are immediately threatened at this time and the fire is believed to be lightning caused from the previous day.

Mark Twain tells us, "A discriminating irreverence is the protector of human liberty." Drawn not from the warriors quiver, Twains irreverence is drawn from the artists pallet. "Laughter, without a thread of philosophy woven into it, is but a sneeze at humor, genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

McAvoy Layne is a good impersonator of my pen name except for the lack of humor, wit and satire. His attempts at writing the Pine Nuts columns that are mistakenly placed as Opinions rather than under his own column that should be named Lame Laynes attempts at both humor and wit.

Mark Twain tells us, "A discriminating irreverence is the protector of human liberty." Drawn not from the warriors quiver, Twains irreverence is drawn from the artists pallet. "Laughter, without a thread of philosophy woven into it, is but a sneeze at humor, genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Autumn is a perfect time to enjoy this light and fresh-tasting soup when the weather starts to cool, and salads start to feel a little monotonous.