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Ambrose Bierce’s “The Grasshopper and the Ant”

Posted on January 30, 2026February 3, 2026 by John Lubans

One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up  some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried…

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Pasture-Raised Leadership and More Than You Want to Know about Egg Farming*

Posted on January 19, 2026February 7, 2026 by John Lubans

A few years back, I made up a term for a kind of management system or style: cage free. It was a re-purposing of a term found on an egg carton. As you know nowadays there’s more than one way, including “gluten-free”, to market eggs. (There’s no gluten** in eggs.) And, claiming eggs are organic suggests something…

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