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Posted in Cuisine, Life During Wartime, Literature, Music, Politics, Sports on Feb 28th, 2010
I read The Sunday Times, so you don’t have to: Feb. 28
Good morning. I made Grandma Spevak’s sausage yesterday, grinding the meat and stuffing the hog casings myself. Now the house still smells like garlic and pork fat. Let’s get to The Times:
1, Media reports immediately following Barack Obama’s Thursday health care summit left [...]
I read the Sunday New York Times, so you don’t have to: Jan. 31:
This morning’s coffee: Kenyan. First music of the day: Quicksilver Messenger Service’s Happy Trails, kind of a Bo Diddley beat prog rock.
1, Here’s an alarming headline: “China Leading Race to Make Clean Energy.” Now travel the Time Machine back a decade. Remember [...]
Posted in Cuisine, Literature, Music, Politics, Sports, Travel on Jan 17th, 2010
I read the Sunday Times, so you don’t have to: Jan. 17
I’ve brewed the coffee (from Papua New Guinea) and sat down with The New York Times this morning after making a profoundly puzzling music choice for the stereo: Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.
1, Today, this is all that matters: “As Aid Pours In, Haiti Struggles [...]
Posted in Books, Cultural events, Literature, Music, Politics, Sports on Jan 10th, 2010
I read the Sunday New York Times, so you don’t have to: Jan. 10
1, A front-page profile of Roger Ailes, the head of the right-handed propaganda machine Fox News, concludes with this quote from former Clinton aid James Carville: “If he were a Democrat, I think there would be 67 Democratic senators right now.” Dwell [...]