I wandered into Office Depot this afternoon and found a Brother MFC-J615W machine on sale for $39.99. Since I’ve been using a Canon BJC-240 which is so old it still uses a parallel port (the old 25-pin plug) and thus required a USB adapter to make it work with newer machines and it’s increasingly hard …
From Bread Just about to put it onto the pizza stone. Some say put it directly on the stone, others say put it on a pan (as I have here) and put the pan on the stone. It came out wonderfully well cooked all the way around and through, so the pan method certainly works. …
Do I number any vets among my readers? Answer in the comments, please. The reason I ask is that I just read a thought-provoking article in Time which discusses the widening gap between the military and civilian worlds in American society. The makeup of today’s force misses the heart of American might: the common bond …
Charlie Pierce, advising the Occupy movement to stay away from debates and out of the election: The tents are the witness. The tents in the parks, and the public spaces, and the greenways and riverwalks around the country are the witness being born that the Occupy movement — adding “Wall Street” as a general descriptive …
Gosh, look at the time. I got tied up in a meeting this afternoon and haven’t gotten to the blog machine until now. Let’s see, I had three things I was gonna write about: income inequality, Republican misbehavior, and uh, . . . Oops.
I regret that Joe Paterno’s illustrious career ended the way it did, but what on earth could he and his supporters expect? Once it became known that he had been informed of Sandusky’s actions in 2002 (four years after the first incident — timeline here) and did nothing more than report it to his boss, …
Wins in a few off-year elections are no reason to gloat loudly, but I am really pleased that voters in such disparate locations as Ohio, Maine, Mississippi and Arizona reversed policies or recalled those policies’ advocates yesterday. Ohio’s resounding defeat of Governor Kasich’s attempt to eliminate collective bargaining for public workers was super. Mississippi’s somewhat …
Greg Sargent at The Plum Line, commenting on the tax reform proposal put forth by Republican members of the SuperCommittee: . . . the highest tax rate would be reduced from 35 percent to 28 percent under the emerging GOP tax code overhaul proposal, the senior Democratic aide tells me. And the reduction would actually …
Since APEC begins here in Honolulu today, I’ve gotten in the habit of blaming all local things I’m annoyed with on the disruption caused by 21 world leaders and their respective entourages visiting the town I live in. So it’s entirely their fault that the green waste pickup that was supposed to occur Friday morning …
I have nothing to say. Wait. I take it back. Go read “The Politics of Austerity” at the NYT. In a March 15 declaration calling for defunding of most social programs, the New Boston Tea Party was blunt: “The locusts are eating, or should we say devouring, the productive output of the hard working taxpayer.” …