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My President Is 'Down to Earth'

Michelle Obama will soon plant a vegetable garden on the south lawn at the White House.

As a commentator to the article notes, what a fine idea. Even finer is what it represents: this White House is making a gentle but firm gesture against industrialization of our food supply, and a simple but unmistakable bow to its own frailty; after all, it's pretty tough to be cocky when you grow you own vegetables. Frailty may be a scary, humbling, and terribly old fashioned observation, but it's the kind of scary, humbling, and terribly old fashioned world in which I want to live.

So, "thank you" to the Obamas -- I'll take a first family that weeds over one that clears brush, any day.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).