Paul once made a Guinness ice cream dish for me, where he reduced Guinness down to a super-powerful thick sauce that was poured over fine french vanilla. It was tasty, but apparently took a lot of effort. I wonder if this would be nearly as good–I think an experiment is in order. Maybe on the 17th. (From the January 18th,… Read more →
Day: March 2, 2006
Unrelated Lapham Quotes
“Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn’t really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we… Read more →
The Case for Impeachment
Have I mentioned my deep and abiding love for the essays of Lewis H. Lapham? They were (and sometimes are, now that he’s “editor emeritus”) the first thing I read in Harper’s every month, and I’ve bought a linear foot or two of books of his writings because of them. He’s more than a bit pretentious in style at times,… Read more →
