Every now and then I get email from friends who are in far off corners of the world, and I try to take a moment and recognize how amazing some of the things that we of the Net generation take for granted actually are. My high school friend Shawn, who among other things helped me develop theories about the Holy… Read more →
Year: 2004
Lots of stairs…
So, what’s that image in the header all about? Well, as I have mentioned previously, we did a couple of weeks in Hungary last year, with lots of it spent in Budapest. One of the many architecturally amazing things in that city is the Basilica of St. Istvan (Istvan, pronounced “Isht-van”, is the Hungarian analog of Steven). I’m fiercly areligious,… Read more →
I like cheese. And garlic. And mushrooms.
Tonight’s first course for me will be this salad, which comes from last week’s Globe & Mail. Trish spotted the recipe, in an article entitled Hot, Cheesy Goodness and forwarded it to me with the comment “the first recipe sounds like it was created for you”. Goat Cheese Sandwiches with Warm Mushroom Salad Basically, this salad is mushrooms and fried… Read more →
“Is there anything more dangerous than an ideologue who doesn’t know he’s wrong?”
So, one the people who I apparently should have known about before this year, but who I didn’t was Seymour Hersh. I’ve been reading all the articles of his that I can since he broke open the Abu Ghraib thing in Atlantic montly, and I intend to buy his new book at my next opportunity. If anything this almost curmudgeonly… Read more →
We suck less
I see three possible way to look at this: Canada in top 20! Canada 7 times less free than the eight freest countries Canada freest in North America We suck less than the US. Read more →
Loving The Alien
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me that I bought the new Danny Michel album, Loving The Alien, the minute it came out. The entire album is Danny doing covers of David Bowie tune, and the short review is that they are all great–and very different from the Bowie versions. When I started seeing Danny’s live… Read more →
Bad Parenting Monthly
Can you get on the cover of Bad Parenting Monthly for letting a shoggoth eat your daughter? Read more →
Saving Me Some Time
I’ll add this post just in case is any doubt about the ease with which a massive list of the Bush Administration’s problems could be prepared. Read more →
If I were an American high school student I would be in Gitmo by now
Look, I could spend a long time making a list of all the reasons why Bush has to go, but here’s today’s most spooky one: Students threatened with explusion for supporting Kerry. Read more →
Hideg meggyleves
A discussion of sour cherry soup Read more →
Epigraph
Explaining the name of this blog Read more →
