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Tortilla pans seem to work as advertised, at least with flour tortillas. From Events
Archive of entries posted on May 2013
“When it’s MY ox . . .”
Paraphrasing Oklahoma Senators Coburn and Inhofe during discussion of funding disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy: “It’s wasteful pork and we won’t stand for it!” Senator Coburn after yesterday’s calamitous tornado in Moore, OK: “as the ranking member of Senate committee that oversees FEMA, I can assure Oklahomans that any and all available aid will be …
So many tornadoes
I’ve never lived in the Midwest anywhere near Tornado Alley and thus have no first-hand knowledge, but it seems to me that there have been an awful lot of them over the past few years, more than I remember from twenty or thirty years ago. There were 866 in 1980, according to the National Climatic …
Why Cincinnati?
If you wonder why Cincinnati became the go-to IRS office for non-profit exemption review, the answer’s really simple: The IRS was having trouble hiring people for low-level positions in field offices like New York or Atlanta — the kinds of workers that typically reviewed applications by nonprofits, Owens said. The answer to this was simple: …
Possessive!
Keep your grubby feet outta my slipper, dammit! From Events
Who needs truth when a President’s in sight?
Those emails about Benghazi didn’t show the White House massaging the talking points at all, we now learn. Instead, we learn that some attendee at a meeting two months ago during which the mails were shown to Republicans misrepresented their content to ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who promptly published what he was told. Hooray for stenography! …
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So THAT’S where it went
Back in March Abby hid a rawhide bone somewhere in the house. I was out this afternoon, and when I came back and let her in she went haring off toward the back of the house. Back she came into the family room with a rawhide bone (hopefully the same one she hid two months …
Vote for who, now?
There’s nothing quite like it unless it’s school board elections. You get a ballot in the mail for your neighborhood board, open it, look at the candidates, realize you know none of them, and then agonize for a little while as to which of these people should represent you on this most local of all …
6 Billion Dollars???
In Baggage and Reservation Fees??? In 2012 alone??? As if ticket prices weren’t already so high as to make one think twice about flying, now we learn that the weaselly money-hungry airlines have collected six billion dollars in various fees, from charges for checking one or more pieces of luggage to charges for overweight bags …
Marco Rubio’s fantasy
He’s terribly offended by the news that some mid-level IRS employees were classifying conservative 501(c)4 outfits by name in order to determine whether they lived up to the rules for those type of organizations. He’s SO offended that he wants the IRS Commissioner to resign. Only there is no such person. The guy who was …