: MSNBC on Eating Only What Grows Around You

RUSH: This is an MSNBC story, and it's by Allison Linn, called "Eating Only What Grows Around You -- Once the purview of foodies and hippies, 'locavorism'..." a new word, here, "'locovorism' is going mainstream." This is all about the new enlightened who think that you can "save the planet," and fuel expenses, by growing your own and eating what is local food-wise. This is just more craziness in the name of "the planet."

Folks, do you have any idea...? You New Agers, do you have any idea what it was like? Do you have any idea how fortunate you are? Go to the local farmers maker! Everybody's got a farmers market. Go there if you want something fresh. Go to the grocery store! Do you realize our ancestors -- even as far back as the founding, but even farther back than that. Do you know that most people's work, most people spent most of the day feeding themselves?

That's what they did. We have it so good. We have it so luxurious. Most people spent their whole day just feeding themselves and the family. That's how much work it took -- and you don't want to go back and live in those days because I'm telling you, it was dirty, it was smelly, it was filled with pollution. It was dirty. All this romantic notion! Why don't you just become one of these indigenous tribes, move somewhere to the jungles of Brazil where nobody's had contact with people, and live with them? Just go there and leave us alone! Grow your own! I am not going to start growing kumquats in my backyard. No! I'm going to continue to go to the grocery store. Well, I will send people to go to the grocery store. Let me tell you something. You know what? If there was a plant that glowed in the dark, I would plant it on the beach. Yes: I would become a glowing-light-plant-farmer on the beach. I'm just kidding.

Solar Physicists Worried Over Dearth of Sunspots RUSH: Solar physicists, ladies and gentlemen, are worried. Solar physicists are worried. For those of you in Rio Linda, this is scientists who study the sun. There has been a longer-than-average time with no sunspots on the sun. They're not worried yet, they say, they're not concerned yet. The last time the sun went without sunspots for 50 years led to the little ice age. Now it hasn't been near 50 years here, ladies and gentlemen, but there haven't been any sunspots and solar physicists cannot predict what happens on the sun, but they can observe it, and they have observed that it's a dull surface, no activity there. And the longer it goes on, the more concerned they're going to get.