I haven’t tried this recipe yet, but I really want to.
(I seem to be in a “short posts” mode this morning.)
Hmmmmmmm….
It really can’t be a coincidence that the cover design of the new book about the war on terror by noted neocons David Frum and Richard Perle, An End to Evil, strongly resembles that of the Left Behind books.
Can it?
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He’ll probably do an interpretive dance at the State of the Union….
Via Oliver Willis, I see that Dennis Kucinich arrived at a debate bearing a visual aid, in the form of a pie chart, so as to better illustrate his points to people not present in the debate hall. You know, the broadcast audience.
The broadcast audience that was listening to the debate on NPR. National Public Radio.
Oy….
(BTW, Oliver also posts a picture today of the only man in America capable of driving him to orgasm.)
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Yep, they’re pathetic….
Remember that old “Looney Tunes” cartoon in which Foghorn Leghorn is trying to educate that egg-headed young genius of a chicken the finer points of chicken-hood, and the kid keeps whipping out his slide-rule and chemistry set and whatnot to pull of impossible deeds? At one point, Foghorn is standing right in front of the kid, but the kid somehow mathematically “proves” that Foghorn is actually in a large wooden box beside the barn. Foghorn goes to the box, reaches to lift the lid, but then stops and says, “No, I’d better not. I just might be in there.”
In that spirit, I refuse to delve deeply into Pathetic Geek Stories.
(via MeFi)
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Two Years of Yglesiasness
Congrats to Matthew Yglesias on the two-year anniversary of his blog (which actually passed the other day).
And my own blogiversary is coming up early next month….
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She needs a lightsaber or a blaster or something….
On a random check of Instapundit — yeah, I have a look at him every three or four days — I discover something truly interesting. It turns out that now you can go into space science, well, “for the babes”.
Heh. Indeed.
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A JRRT question
OK, I have a question for any Tolkien folks out there who know more than I do: did Eowyn actually kill the Witch King of Angmar, or did she merely manage to render him “non-corporeal” in the same way that Elrond (or Arwen, in the movie) did in Fellowship when the river was impelled to wash the Nazgul away?
In short, had the war gone on for a lot longer than it did, would the Witch King have found form again?
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Quick Recipe
I made the following item for dinner the other night. I’m not sure what wonderful name you’d give it, since it’s basically sausage and beans. But if you want something easy to just toss into your crockpot, try this:
1. Brown and crumble one pound of bulk pork sausage (we used a spicy variety) with one diced onion.
2. Put the sausage and onion into the crockpot with all of the following:
Two 28 oz. cans of baked beans
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbs. mustard
3. Cook on the “low” setting for six hours or so.
No, this isn’t magnificent culinary achievement, but it’s one of those “nice and easy on a cold day” things that you can toss into the crock pot before you spend a day going to Target and the grocery store.
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I’m being stalked!
Hmmmm….I use Garamond as my main font on my blog, and then John Scalzi switches to Garamond.
Then, I decide I’m officially supporting Wesley Clark for the Democratic presidential nomination, and John Scalzi does the same.
I don’t know why he’s following my lead. I mean, he’s the professional writer, and I’m just the aspiring goof-off. It’s a mystery.
(This post is part of my new resolution to become more delusional in 2004. How am I doing?)
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Mr. Rose
I suppose I should comment, ever-so-briefly, on Pete Rose. Personally, I think he should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and he actually should have been inducted there years ago. I see no reason, really, why Hall of Fame eligibility should be tied to MLB eligibility. And I think that if (or when) Rose finally gets in, his plaque should include a reference to the gambling scandals. (I also think that Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall, with a similar “asterisk” on his plaque.
But, I do not think he should be allowed any participation in MLB itself beyond, say, public-relations appearances, as at the World Series a couple of years back, or even allowing him to play in one of those “Old Timer’s Games”. He should not be allowed to manage or work in a front office position. Baseball has been just fine without him, and while I’m somewhat glad that he’s coming clean now, the impact is somewhat lessened by his refusal over the last fifteen years to do it already. I suppose he could be insincere about the whole thing; this could be a case of “Fine, I’ll just say what you want me to say so I’ll get what I want”, but I don’t really care.
So: Hall of Fame, yes. Participation in baseball on any official basis, no.
(BTW: I’ve seen it said, in a few places, that even if Rose was fully reinstated, he’d still be ostracized by MLB owners and general managers. Maybe I’m too cynical here, but I don’t believe that’s true: it seems to me that as long as someone believes that Rose has something to offer, can help them “win”, that someone will give him a job. It’s always this way in sports: Latrell Sprewell continues to play and draw a nice salary after doing something that would have landed, say, a bank teller in jail because he’s still a good basketball player. I don’t believe for one second that Rose would remain unemployed for long if he were reinstated. Sooner or later, some owner would say, “Well, that gambling business seems to have died down, and the public sure likes controversy, so….”)