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They like western Chinese, so that’s what I’m doing. We got one of those fruit baskets for Christmas and have a couple of apples and pears left, we have some 4 year-old raw milk white cheddar, and picked up some soprasseta, finocchiona, and peppered salame, so bingo! we have appetizers.

Hot and sour soup
Rabbit with peanuts […]

Company for dinner today at 5, and I just found out!

Nap time.

I figure the best way to pop the Hucklebubble is to let him run his mouth, since every time he does, he digs himself deeper, so I haven’t been whacking him much. But the Huckaboob is on a roll now. First, he said Frank Gaffney was his foreign policy adviser, and Gaffney said, “Uh, no” […]

Ann Althouse has started a thread about rules for movies, and Trooper York sez:
The reason why people hate this movie can be spelled out in two words: Robin Williams. I have some rules in life: Never play cards with any man named “Doc.” Never eat at any place called “Mom’s.” And never, never, no matter […]

It doesn’t look like this outside anymore (click to enhugen).

May 16, release date for Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

George Will:
McDonald’s exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans’ upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants — average annual sales, $2.2 million — are owned by franchisees. McDonald’s has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economic entity ever, […]

Tangerine-Peel Chicken (Szechuan)
This really is one of the most amazing things I’ve eaten–and the most uniquely flavored. Purists will object to my use of fresh tangerine peel, but dried tangerine peel is often not available at the Chinese grocery (I dry my own because tangerines are not usually available year round), and orange peel is […]

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Loony-tunes, slobbering, mouthbreathing gorilla gurlz and weed dandelion salads are squealing and pulling out their hair […]

Dark Knight, the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale sequel to Batman Begins. Here’s the trailer; I’ll post the long one when I find it.

That is how William Faulkner described himself (hat tip to Maggie’s Farm for bringing Faulkner to mind). Here is the acceptance speech he gave for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950, sometimes called The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself:
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my […]

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Remember that rib roast from about ten days ago?
Ready to go in the oven, coated with kosher salt and coarsely-ground black pepper:

Done!

Carved!

Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters:

It’s all about the hair (a theory I like, although it doesn’t explain Trent Lott).

Fourth of July meal, eaten on the fifth:
So the company was delayed a day, and we had July 4 dinner on July 5. I already had the menu lined up: Smoked pork roast, scalloped potatoes, corn, and that coconut cake. But I was at the store on the morning of the 4th, and as I […]

Breibart:
Customs officials in the Philippines have seized inflatable sex dolls meant to be used for an international campaign against animal cruelty, an animal rights group said Thursday.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it had planned to use the sex toys as props in its Asian campaign against alleged abuses of chickens […]

We already had one example of this crap with “Katrina aid.” I originally posted this in October of 2006, but I’m re-posting it today, just to lend context to the most recent example.
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At least there’s one discussion at MLA this year that’s not sheer idiocy (if you’ve never had the pleasure of attending MLA, that’s a very rare thing):
“For writing centers and programs, the dearth of empirical research is dangerous,” said Linda S. Bergmann, director of the Writing Lab at Purdue University. Too much of what writing […]

The finalists for the Worst Nanny of 2007 are posted. There are the st00pid:
Pamela Anderson, “Tuna Tacos Make Merry Marriage” Award — The publicity-starved spokes-blonde for the animal rights wing nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was caught yet again flouting her veggie “principles.” In June, Anderson got married (for a […]

I was somewhat mystified by the reaction to Bhutto’s assassination yesterday. Yes, it was disturbing, but I’m not sure why it was, as Ann Althouse put it, “terrible news,” and as much as I enjoy bashing the networks, I really don’t see why it should have been at the top of the priority list, as […]

as the perfect breakfast food, that is, is that it makes me sleepy. And the problem with taking a nap is that I never intend it to last three hours.
That’s where I was yesterday. Napping.

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The curry is done! Later, folks!

I’m thinking maybe a fiery, Thai curry. Yes. Absolutely.
Okay, off to the kitchen.

Hat tip to Libberocky for the st00pidest, most amoral, and most brain-dead academic research of 2007 which goes to doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers’ committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.
The abstract of the paper, […]

The Name of the Rose is on. I haven’t seen it since it came out — I had no idea Christian Slater was in it (and he does a good job), but nobody knew who Christian Slater was then, since this was his first film. Good, dark, atmospheric murder mystery, and one of Sean Connery’s […]

You’ll recall the local dairy that sells their milk in glass bottles (which, bizarrely, are regularly auctioned on e-bay):

The milk’s great, but the cream is remarkable, the consistency of Elmer’s glue. Because most will find Meyer cream daunting, I’ve created a photo primer.
Step 1: Remove cream from refrigerator, raise high, and slam onto the counter […]

but sure to make GFWs wet their panties (hat tip to Sebastian). The NRA doesn’t endorse primary candidates, but it seems that the Victory Fund has spent $8998.09 setting up a mailer for (here’s the surprising part) Bill Richardson. As far as I know, the VF has not done this for any of the Republican […]

The Carnival of Ed is up at History is Elementary.

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The chocolates? We really should hit that candy store more often.

The understatement of the year comes from Joanne Jacobs, who says,
Teacher creativity is over-rated
in summarizing this article. The only thing more over-rated in education than teacher creativity is student creativity.
“Creativity” is one of those edubabble terms nobody ever defines, but from the examples I’ve seen, it would include things like presenting your math class using […]

You remember the “Who said it, Al Gore or the Unabomber?” quiz, right? In the same spirit, we now have “Who said it, John Edwards or Mike Huckleberry?” I missed half of them.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

I’ll at least post a Merry Christmas message tomorrow. Don’t know how much else (we may drive over to Bald Eagle and turn around just to drive I-99, now that it’s open).