Dave Weigel used this clip recently, in an entirely different context, and inspired in me a fierce bout of the-opposite-of-nostalgia. I was one of those deluded Dukakis voters (I may have been one of the three women in America who though Mike was sexy) who believed America was ready for a grown-up president after eight …
Sunday Evening Open Thread: #NerdProm
Mr. Charles P. Pierce previews “The Annual Versailles Cotillion“: There is no clearer example of the uselessness and essential decadence of our courtier press than the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, which will be fouling the reputation of the craft of journalism this very weekend. Putative journalists pretend they’re Academy Award nominees while squiring …
Yes, Dogs Love Us (Not Least Because Loving Us Is Profitable)
Brian Hare is the evolutionary anthropologist who made his bones with the “pointing test” — proving that dogs, like human babies but unlike wolves or chimpanzees, can follow a pointing hand (or even a directed gaze) to get a reward. Now he’s got a new project: … Dr. Hare, now an associate professor at Duke, …
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Sunday Garden Chat: Making A Start
. Finally got to the garden center last weekend, so I’ve been transplanting pansies/violas, allysum, and a couple species geraniums into the raised beds and hanging planters. Found a Patriot blueberry bush (which may eventually be too tall for the raised bed), and a new creeping variety called Peach Sorbet as well. Not a very …
The Way We Live Now: Food Stamps in Florida
Real reporting at the Washington Post: FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails …
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Late Night Open Thread: GoT Geek Alert
. . From NYMag’s culture blog, “Learn to Speak Dothraki and Valyrian From the Man Who Invented Them“: Bad news, Game of Thrones fans: You are mispronouncing Daenerys’s honorific, Khaleesi. But don’t feel bad. On the HBO show, her smitten man-servant Jorah has been saying it incorrectly as well; the more accurate pronunciation should be …
Friday Recipe Exchange: Chicken Piccata
. Held over from last week, because too much news. From our Food Goddess, TaMara: I think because winter moved back into the neighborhood (seriously, Tuesday’s forecast was for honest to goodness ‘ice pellets’, can ‘raining frogs’ be far behind?) I am finding myself in a berry and citrus mood. I bought 3 lbs of …