Butterfly Love
Rob Morse has some sharp commentary on Sara Jane Olson and the SLA in today's column, "Dipping into modern history for bourgeois pigs." He refers several times to Olson's website, so of course I checked it out, and of course I found some Weird Stuff. You can buy "free Sara" T-shirts, bumper stickers, "fight the prison-industrial complex" posters, and a Marcia Brady-esque button depicting a butterfly with the words "free" on one wing and "Sara" on the other. Also on offer is her cookbook "Serving Time: America's Most Wanted Recipes." Here's a quote from the introduction:
In the 1970's, I learned about organic food when I moved to the Bay Area in California. I belonged to the Food Conspiracy; an umbrella group of neighborhood food-buying clubs that bought organic food from rural farms and local distributors. The Conspiracy was large enough to purchase food at wholesale prices and pass the savings on to individual members. So, I guess, I do admit to once being a member of a conspiracy