February 2012
12 posts
Slow and Low Is the Way to Go - New York Times →
We’re going meatless for Lent this year.
In preparation, we’re eating what feels like more meat in the next two days than we normally eat in a month.
Tonight, it’s Bittman’s Chinese short ribs.
Tomorrow night, it’s cassoulet (thanks for the tip, Jay).
Tuesday is leftovers (seems like Bittman’s short ribs alone would feed an army).
From there until...
12 Recipes to Know by Heart | The Kitchn →
Contraception Debate Misses a Basic Question →
There’s been plenty of argument over proposed federal regulations requiring employers to offer health plans covering contraception for women. But few people bring up the basic question: Why is it considered normal for your boss to determine your healthcare options in the first place?
Relying on employers for healthcare means the company has more leverage over the worker. If you’re out of...
BREAKING VIA AP: "A person familiar with the... →
inothernews:
For fuck’s sake.
Announcement set for later today.
Isn’t all of this noise about the Catholic bishops crying foul over fair access to healthcare for women just another strong point in favor of splitting health insurance from employment status in America? And no, I don’t think that’s a run on sentence. But I could be wrong.
Check out this new tumblr: "Planned Parenthood... →
think-progress:
Accepting submissions.
January 2012
19 posts
Watchgood:
Kids are awesome - two 17-year olds launch a lego into space on $400!
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad now have an awesome topic for their college essays. They launched a homemade balloon into space as one lucky lego got the ride of his life. The lego carried a Canadian flag and was attached to a video camera, collecting evidence of the journey.
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Just listening...
“We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’: we...”
– Republican governor MITCH “I really said that” DANIELS, in delivering the GOP response to the State of the Union Tuesday night.
Continuing the Republican theme of “I deny that this nation has poor people, impoverished people, and what other civilized societies might otherwise term ‘the...
Take Your Child to the Library Day Launches →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
On more than one occasion, I’ve paraded through town with a rag-tag group of teenage boys to the local public library—both here in Chicago and back when I worked on the reservation in New York.
Many of the kids didn’t really know where to start—how do I get a card? How long can I keep things? Can I use the computers? Can we talk? What’s over there? Where are the Wimpy Kid...
Hugo gets 11 Oscar Nominations →
My daughters wanted to see a movie over Christmas break. At first, they picked some sort of Alvin and the Chipmunks thing. I vetoed.
I offered up Hugo, and surprisingly they agreed.
Based on Brian Selznick’s graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Martin Scorsese’s film turned out to be one of the most visually stunning films I’ve seen.
The story is interesting, if a...
Two questions for Millennials and Gen X-ers →
azspot:
What made you leave, or consider leaving, the Church? (or, What made you stay?)
In what practical ways would you like to see folks from older generations come alongside us as we evolve and make our faith our own?
[1] Constant consideration of exiting the church due to (a) currents of fundamentalism and legalism, (b) legalism, (c) attention to style, i.e. the “show”, over...
Senator Claire McCaskill: A Cockroach and a... →
clairecmc:
Congratulations to all of you who decided to get involved with your government. You have had a real impact on the legislative process. As I watched my Twitter account explode, I couldn’t help but grin. This is how it’s supposed to work. Thousands of people, not lobbyists or organized special…
T-12 hours and change until I fly to Las Vegas.
annaetc:
And, of course, I have no clean clothes, I’ve only just found someone to take care of my cat (side note: maryqueenofscouts is my hero), and I’m eating frosted Pop-Tarts for dinner. AM I AN ADULT YET, YOU GUYS?
Funny. Melissa and I leave for Vegas in approximately 12 hours. STL-ORD-LAS. Bummed because we waited too long to get tickets, and Southwest was sold out for their direct...
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SOPA on WAMU →
Diane Rehm is covering fair use rights in the digital age right now.
Watchpritheworld:
Hey all, Steven Davy here at The World. Thought I would try something new. How about a daily digest featuring some great interviews and reports from the show?
I put them together in one easy to use SoundCloud file for a quick listen. Let me know what you think.
It’s just three or four (or five stories like today!) that could be easy to listen to on your walk (bike? run?) to work...
“We all know people who don’t cook: not enough time, skill or stuff. Gentle...”
– Gifts for Non-Cooks - NYTimes.com
This really works - see here.
For the best recommendation I can think of, though, it’s Bittman’s “Kitchen Express”.
December 2011
18 posts
Percentage increase in National Debt by Presidency →
Reagan 189.0%
Bush 43 89.0%
Bush 41 51.6%
Carter 42.6%
Clinton 36.0%
Obama 34.0%
“There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we...”
– Stephen Marche, via Wonkbook. (via infectedworldmind)
Something we, as a culture, don’t have the ability to recognize, much less address.
Plus, Ezra Klein reference (his blog is called Wonkblog now. It publishes Wonkbook every morning as a wonky primer for the day).
inothernews:
David Brent singing “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” is even funnier when seeing porn cross one’s Dashboard.
While eating clementines.
1 for 3.
Clementines
Pretzel bread w/ stone ground mustuard.
No ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now”
Good Night
To my best mate Jay - thanks for the great night.
It’s rare you get the chance to connect with the brother you never had. Tonight I had that chance. It was as you’d expect. We both gave each other distilled drinks for Christmas (Jay went a little further than I did): we connected with old and future friends (some wanted, others not so much); at the end of the night, we both...
“Obama will thus be the conservative in 2012, in the truest sense of that word....”
– E.J. Dionne Jr. (via azspot)
“I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly,...”
– George Clooney (via apsies)
“Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole...”
– Jim Wallis
5% of Christmas is all it would take. The church I attend has for the last couple of years been donating 100% of the Christmas Eve offering to mission work. It is split 50/50 between a program to drill wells in Mozambique and a community service here in St. Louis known as Kingdom House...
A Nation's Education Left Behind →
So what can we do? First, we should speak out when politicians say “there is no more money.” There is money to do what we want to do. There is money to fight wars in the Middle East. There is enough money to give big corporate cuts. There is enough money for 1% of this nation to live lives of splendor. Why is there not enough money to provide the basic public services that every child needs?
...
“Last week, virtually every Senate Republican voted against that tax cut. Now, I...”
– —President Obama, in a statement today urging Republicans in Congress to extend the payroll tax cut (via barackobama)
Please, oh please, talk about these kinds of things more and more. The average American understands and dislikes hypocrisy and double-standards.
“…Obama is a smart person whereas Gingrich is simply a dumb person’s...”
– Andrew Sullivan
November 2011
4 posts
