Whoa! I’ve been busy in the evenings and haven’t been listening as much to Air America Radio lately, but visited the website just now to check in and listen to Majority Report. Whoa! Big redesign! Lot’s of interesting content to browse! News items and interesting looking links, too. Very impressive, it looks like they’ve got someone on staff now who does a lot of background items for guests on the shows.
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Oy. We have made it home. I feel good and we had a great weekend, but it’s good to be back in our own house, and shortly, we’ll be back in our own bed. I didn’t sleep well at all for the whole trip. There was a bit more to the story last night after I went to bed – after a couple of hours, I started to feel very yukky. And then, after a few minutes of intense regret for eating so damn much bagna calda (basically, whole roast cloves of garlic, by the forkfuls), I eventually felt better.…
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Who’da thunk garlic ice cream with caramel mole sauce would be so damn good? I mean, I knew the bagna calda (roast garlic in a skillet) would be good; eventually we stopped bothering with dinner rolls and just ate the whole roast cloves by the forkful. I figured the crab cooked in special garlic sauce would be good (Dungeness, too) and when it came on a giant griddle set on a rack over two big empty “boneyard” bowls (for the discarded shells). But there were a couple of surprises – there was a pasta dish that was kind of an…
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We’re on the road to SF today – in case I didn’t make it clear earlier, we’re on a quick weekend trip to Napa Valley and San Francisco. Yesterday we went on a wine quest -we were supposed to go to 5 wineries and at the end we’d get a free T-shirt. Well, we succeeded, and had a great time visiting with vintners and owners and drinking great wine and petting great dogs. Tonight we finally eat at the Stinking Rose, so Steve will stop nagging us about it. I understand that we will be emanating essence of garlic for…
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The California State Supreme Court has ruled that the gay marriages performed last spring were illegal and never valid. One woman quoted in today’s San Francisco Chronicle said “It’s back to second class citzenship for us.”
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The mini-recap is up at TWOP for last night’s episode: Television Without Pity » It’s another week in Egypt as the teams climb down into a pyramid, get to know the local wildlife, and dig that crazy thingamajig that none of them has ever heard of. Mirna experiments with a theory that she can take your taxi even if your stuff is still in it, and when it doesn’t work the way she hopes it will, you will not be surprised to hear that she concludes that people who want to continue occupying their own taxis are “maniacs.” Even goats…
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Man, what a week – Miss Alli’s recap for last week’s TAR episode went up a couple of days ago : Television Without Pity » The Amazing Race » Recaps & Extras » Season 5 Episode 5 And then there was tonight’s leg! Holy crap, another great, exciting, funny, sharply edited episode. Plus, the shots in Egypt at Karnak and the Great Pyramid and the other temple were really beautiful, especially the early morning sunrise shots. So many satisfying little moments watched, so many snarky cackles to make. Also, a few bombshells: after weeks of listening to Mirna’s Desperanto (which…
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Salon.com has a story on the Abu Ghraib rape allegations… you know, the one that’s been kicking around since the beginning, with the quote from the same witness as before. They blame civilian contractors in a story titled: “Contract to torture.” The story says “sponsored by the New York Times” at the top. This may be repackaged content from before, but the more major news orgs carrying this story, the less likely it is to remain buried for much longer.
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Weekend? What weekend? This one went by faster than most, and next weekend promises to go by even faster. Friday I didn’t get away from the office until after 6pm. My team leader was out again, and although I wasn’t schedule to stay until closing time, things were hairy enough in the afternoon that I decided to stick around for immoral support. Also, one agent had some sort of personal ticket he wanted issued, but it turned out we couldn’t issue it as an electronic ticket, and he couldn’t use paper tickets. They were for family members to come up…