I was finally assigned a new doctor, after the former one moved back to the mainland to care for his or his wife’s aging parents. As part of her “getting to know you” drill, she ordered several lab tests. Transferase; aspartate A — liver function Creatinine; blood – kidney function Glucose; quantitative B – blood …
Here’s a damning timeline of the events during and directly following Katrina’s arrival two years ago and the Bush Administration’s response. All our favorites are there, with links: the guitar-playing, the McCain birthday cake presentation, Condi Rice’s theater-going and shoe-buying, and Bush’s flyover. That was the beginning of the end of this Administration’s popularity, for …
As pointed out here, there are conservative Democrats who can’t seem to recognize that the Administration is Constitutionally so far out of line that it has to be stopped. That’s bad enough, but when one reads an analysis (accurate, I’m pretty sure) which says: . . .political fear still hovers over any legislation that touches …
When served with lobster, why is melted butter called “drawn” butter?
I’m reading the Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust. Here’s a fansite with many many spoilers. These are fantasy, so the stories take place in an alternate universe with no relation to ours. They have swords and sorcery, but those aspects are nearly incidental to the interior dialogues our hero is having with himself. He …
So who among you has succumbed to YASN* disease? I’m now on Facebook and LinkedIn. Won’t you be my neighbor? *Yet Another Social Network
Greg Sargent at TPM’s Election Central declares Rahm Emanuel’s response to Alberto Gonzales’ resignation the Quote of the Day, and it’s hard to argue against him: Alberto Gonzales is the first Attorney General who thought the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth were three different things. Yep.
From the library, with help from The Sondheim Guide: America – Chita Rivera and Girls; show – West Side Story; album: Best of Broadway Being Alive – Barbra Streisand; show – Company; album: The Broadway Album Everything’s Coming Up Roses – Ethel Merman; show – Gypsy; album: Best Of Broadway Not While I’m Around – …
I finally found a Linda Ronstadt album I didn’t immediately love: Trio, a 1987 release with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. On first listen, it seemed like there was too much Dolly singing lead. I like Parton in small doses, but there seemed to be an awful lot of her. On further review, however, I’ve …
Kevin Drum finds a paragraph in Youngblood Hawke about the scarcity of tacos in New York City at the time the novel was written (1952). What follows in his comments is a marvelous mish-mash of culinary history from his readers as various regions of the country weigh in. Do read it. The New Yorker’s Martin …