[ctdonath2]

“Events have moved briskly since a Tunisian fruit vendor with a handcart set fire to himself six weeks ago”

To those who wonder what nuts expect to achieve by stupid pointless self-destructive actions, there is your answer.

[Uncle Miltie]

If I blame Helicopter Ben Bernanke for the food riots and deaths, is that a “Blood Libel”, or just truth?

[Mariner]

There's plenty of land in California's San Joaquin Valley lying fallow.

Actually, there's good farmland throughout North America which is not producing aggressively. 10s of thousands of gentleman "farms" and vast acreages doing little.

Farmland is still relatively cheap too.