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Hearty and filling. Equally good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner — and for some bizarre reason, unknown here. You can’t even get it at Denny’s. Go figure.
There are two, well, really three ways you can make this. You can make it smooth, if you want sausage to eat as sausage alongside your biscuits and gravy. […]

The final trio (this clip with Renee Fleming, Anne Sofie von Otter, and Heidi Grant Murphy).

But a different production, with Anne Sofie von Otter as Octavian and Barbara Bonney as Sophie. Enchanting.

This was yesterday:

And this is today:

St. Meinrad Archabbey, in Spencer County, between Dubois County and the Ohio River. It is one of only two archabbeys in the United States, and nine in the world:

We often went to St. Meinrad, though never only to attend Mass and hear the monks sing Gregorian chant. The monks used to make a wide […]

“It is a remarkable fact of the Duke case that the legal profession has acquitted itself with greater honor than the professoriate.”

A roundup of California nuttiness (again, thanks to Glenn Reynolds).

This made milk come out my nose:
I just got a call purporting to be from the American Civil Liberties Union. Before they got going, they said, “This call may be monitored for quality assurance.”
It’s a good article. Read the whole thing. Hat tip to the Blog Father.

Thanks to Tim Blair, I saw this little gem of idiocy:
The slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says
I suppose it’s a refreshing change from “It’s Bush’s fault!” but it’s still nuts. Slobbering at the mouth, drooling, fly-catching […]

What weenies:
Until now, the EU thought it was enough to fire off a flurry of press releases, killing more trees then people have died in Darfur, to express its worry.
But being ignored for four years has so irritated the EU that its previous strategy of sending off a letter, then another letter and another letter, […]