[Re-posted from Nov. 22, 2003] 47 years ago today I was a 13-year old 8th grader at Edgar Allen Poe Intermediate in Alexandria, Va. It was an ordinary school day until about 2:20 in the afternoon, when we were changing classrooms, and suddenly a rumor was flying that the President had been shot. That was …
From Events I didn’t make this from scratch. Fleischmann’s makes several bread mixes in a box; put the mix into your bread pan, add water, turn it on and away it goes. This was their sourdough mix. I’m trying to grow sourdough starter.
So the Republicans in Congress are in an uproar because the Fed Chairman says things they don’t like. Funny. When the Fed Chairman says things they do like, as Greenspan did in 2001 when he implicitly endorsed the first round of Bush tax cuts, they fell all over themselves patting him on the back. Now …
My self-cleaning oven is one hour into its cleaning mode so it will be nice and shiny for Thanksgiving. No, I have no hovercraft.
Usually I ask “they” just what the hell “they” buy and whose money are “they” using; I rarely see prices of anything I buy go down. However. I just paid $1.37 for a 40W, 48-inch long fluorescent bulb for my kitchen’s overhead fixture. I haven’t bought one of these in a long time, but I …
It seems Senator Mitch McConnell has a great deal of leverage over his fellow Republicans in the Senate. How else explain the votes of the three Republican women Senators in that body denying paycheck equality to all the women in the United States? Senators Hutchison, Snowe and Collins all voted against cloture on that legislation …
Economic growth equals deficit reduction. It’s as simple as that. As people go to work again, they begin to pay taxes again. As they pay taxes into the Treasury, the amount of borrowing Treasury needs to do drops and the deficit falls. Why do I have to keep repeating this?
I took the car in to a body shop this morning, and they determined really quickly that the part that the trunk latch attaches to is badly rusted and not in stock. I think it’s a formerly-solid piece of metal that runs the width of the trunk. They told me they would try to find …
I think what’s happening with the recurrently-draining car battery is that the trunk lid latch has worked itself loose from its solid moorings. That means that, while it closes, it’s not as tight as it should be and the sensor which tells the trunk light to turn on is continually tripped. Over time that’s enough …
Oh. The bread, despite the weird behavior of the machine, turned out just fine.