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was SO FUCKING GLORIOUS. I made Pork and Chicken Adobo (Ilocano style) from the linked recipe. I implemented said recipe with 2 lbs of boneless skinless chicken thighs and a pound of cubed pork shoulder meat. The pork shoulder lent a fascinating anatomy lesson (still had skin and bone and subcutaneous fat and bursae attached); [...]

This editorial in the SF Chronicle and this editorial in the National Review (!) both urge Condoleeza Rice to testify publicly before the Sept. 11 Commission. (I picked those two because I like ‘em both – which is quite a stretch for the National Review.) Do you use Windows but hate it? Are you looking [...]

I’m looking for something to grow on my back balcony, which would be inexpensive, do well in a St. Louis summer, and be edible (because fresh anything is better). Based on some quick research, I think I’ll be trying to grow ginger. More details as they sprout (haha).

again because i’m trying to do all of ‘em in 10 minutes. (It’s late on a Friday afternoon, what do you expect?) The Washington Post waxes poetic about the pure, lower-case-d democratic nature of the September 11 Commission. The New York Review of Books slams the President’s space initiative, on several disparate grounds. This InvisiBlogger [...]

Rep. Henry Waxman is fast becoming one of my heroes – he and his colleagues on the (U.S.) House Committee on Government Reform have compiled a database of all the misleading statements made about the Iraq sitch by the President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and National Security Advisor. See the Iraq [...]