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Archives for August 2009
France Update
The following should be more widely available, beginning immediately. * Bleu de Brebis. Whole Foods had this cheese once in 2005 for something like a week. Thus, as with Tartufello Pecorino, hope lives. * Chipirons en encre (squid cooked in ink). * Gateau Basque. If the Obama Socialist Food Rationing Board can only squeeze in …
Fil Ouvert
Parlez.
Sunday Night Open Thread
I think this is the third weekend I have made it without watching the Sunday shows and instead have done something different in the morning. Today I just went to the rails to trails with the dog, then worked on stuff I would normally do on Monday while watching the history channel. I felt better …
Eeyore Is Smarter Than Pooh
Via Scientific American, a behavioral ecologist and a psychiatrist suggest that a major depressive incident may make people better able to solve complex problems and social dilemmas : Depressed people often think intensely about their problems. These thoughts are called ruminations; they are persistent and depressed people have difficulty thinking about anything else. Numerous studies …
Move over Monica Goodling
Regent in the governor’s hizouse, or running for it anyway. I don’t think there’s too much value in holding a 20 year-old master’s thesis against anyone (I skipped reading the article til TPM excerpted it and I saw the Regent connection), but this one is radical enough that McDonnell should have to go through and …
McCain in the membrane
Eric Boehlert digs up some data I was wondering about: But back to the loser angle real quick. Again, after Sunday, McCain will have made eleven Sunday morning talk show appearances this year. Asks Benen, “Refresh my memory: was there this much interest in John Kerry’s take on current events in 2005? Answer: There was …