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UNITED STATES Jumbo Pinochle Playing Cards
$3.91
* Official playing cards * Jumbo Pinochle * Includes instructions for Partnership Auction and Double-Deck

20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection - The Best Of Alien Ant Farm
$9.98
Great to see another Alien Ant Farm CD, even if it is a Greatest Hits. Every song on this CD is amazing, even the unreleased songs. Didn't like that it came in a paper case instead of a jewel case. Hopefully AAF will make a brand new CD soon!

Great States 415-16 16-Inch Standard Full Feature Push Reel Lawn Mower With T-Style Handle And Heat Treated Blades
$82.99
Pros:
-Solid construction.
-Compact, relatively lightweight (~15 lbs), easy to hand carry, easy to push, easy to store.
-Quiet.
-Self-mulching, no heavy/PITA grass catcher bag to deal with.
-No need to buy gas or oil, no need to crank start.
-Cuts grass cleanly, adjustable cutting heights.

Cons:
-Cuts grass unevenly, depending on how long the blade of grass is. Often requires multiple passes at different angles to get an even cut.
-Doesn't cut out to the wheels, requiring some overlap and makes it difficult to get at lawn edges if you have paver/stone edging.

Overall:
This is a good mower for someone with a small yard, or someone with a big yard who isn't too picky about having the perfectly manicured lawn. It's an energy efficient, environmentally/neighborhood friendly mower that will help keep your lawn healthy. It can be a little time inefficient depending on how picky you are about getting an even cut (basically how many passes at different angles you're willing to make). The reel mower design tends to push long blades of grass down (as opposed to getting sucked up into the blades like with a powered mower), so cutting grass that is more than about 1" longer than cut height requires multiple passes. (This mower works better with grass that is regularly cut.) It requires about as much effort to push as a non-propelled gas mower, and requires very little maintenance - just occasional blade sharpening and oiling.

Raising Less Corn, More Hell: Why Our Economy, Ecology and Security Demand The Preservation of the Independent Farm
$25.00
In this engaging book, George Pyle avoids clich���d hand-wringing about the "Crisis of the American Farmer." Instead, he delivers an informative, fascinating farmers'-eye-view account of US agricultural policy within the larger context of economic globalization, the energy crisis, global warming, water pollution, the US obesity epidemic, genetically modified foods and terrorism. Pyle enriches his account with links to slavery, communism, the Dust Bowl, Star Trek and Nobel economist Amartya Sen. Sprightly, direct writing, clear information and convincing analysis, all in 200 pages. Read this book, and you'll to understand where your dinner fits into the Big Picture.