The class was AG301 and one of the general education requirements at Cal Poly SLO. The class was three times a week and consisted of two classroom lectures (Mondays and Wednesdays) and a "field trip" each Friday. The field trips could be eye-opening for kids like me whose encounters with farming was limited to seeing tractors in fields as you roll down the interstate or the weekly farmer's market in downtown SLO.

There's an old line about hunters and vegetarians having one thing in common: they both know where food comes from. That was demonstrated earlier this week when MSNBC and others in the "elite" media expressed horror at the following video:

Take a gander at the text below Palin: "GOV. PALIN APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO TURKEY CARNAGE OVER HER SHOULDER." And: "GOV. PALIN NOT REALIZING INCONGRUITY OF HER WORDS VERSUS HER BACKDROP." And "TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA."

For those of you who think media bias is a conscious conspiracy as opposed to just a natural result of homogenized, like-minded liberalism, this should prove to you that it's the latter -- yes, they really are this stupid.

Tim Blair has a collection of breathless links from idiots in the media who think meat is grown in sterile labs in thin deli slices.

The best line came from an e-mailer to National Review Online:

She should tell the media that she apologizes and she'll do her next interview inside an abortion clinic.