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I would post a picture of my room at the Hudson hotel but my room was too small to take out my camera and still stand in the room. My point is not to complain-- I could, but that's tedious. It's just that I've often marveled what people will do for fashion-- walk on 7 in. heels, wedge themselves into trousers that are too small. I have now had the hotel version of that experience. I had no choice. Someone else booked the hotel, but after staying there I'm concerned that fashionable people must be awfully tired.
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story here.
Photograph by Karen Tumulty, Time magazine.
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First take about 1/2 lb. of olives. (Well, buy them, don't take them. You can't very easily make this in jail.)
Place the olives in a jar with a top and cover them with olive oil, removing the top first.
Smash one or two cloves of garlic with the blade of a knife and put them in the mix.
Add one teaspoon or tablespoon (I always forget the difference) of red pepper flakes.
Brown about a teaspoon of fennel seed in a skillet and throw that in.
Remove skillet.
Let it all sit for about 3 hours mixing every now and again.
Strain and serve.
If there are any olives left over after you’ve served this, you’ve done it wrong, but you can refrigerate what’s left for about a month. (If you’re brave and want to stretch that let me know how that works out).
You can threaten to ruin this recipe by shaving a little orange peel into the jar to give it a hint of fruit, but that’s up to you.
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Obama not the first to vote to fund the troops for a war he didn't believe in:
"You remember I was an old Whig, and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the [Mexican] war had been righteously begun by the President, I would not do it. But whenever they asked for any money, or land-warrants, or anything to pay the soldiers there, during all that time, I gave the same vote that Judge Douglas did. [Loud applause.]You can think as you please as to whether that was consistent. Such is the truth; and the Judge has the right to make all he can out of it. But when he, by a general charge, conveys the idea that I withheld supplies from the soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war, or did anything else to hinder the soldiers, he is, to say the least, grossly and altogether mistaken, as a consultation of the records will prove to him."
Lincoln in first Lincoln/Douglas debate. Found here.
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Some time I'll be able to embed video. For now here. I almost laughed my way out of the quiet car when I watched this.
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Story here.
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Climbing tallest building in Hong Kong:
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Story here.
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On how candidates drop out of the presidential race found here.
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Buy it here now.
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Today I was on the show for the first time, fifty years after my mother worked on it as an associate producer. Her granddaughter and namesake, who she never met, sat in the green room watching Scooby Doo while I was on. The executive producer for the show was nice enough to let me bring the kids when I couldn't get a sitter and in the end I was delighted to have them with me though I had visions of both of them causing some Seinfeld-show like mischief.
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Caddyshack comes to life.
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Pictured above is a moment of excitement in the sport of cole slaw wrestling. Below is a caption from a picture I didn't reprint:
Referee Wes Westberg (left) keeps an eye on the action as Maggie West, 45, of Tampa and Heather Spears, 24, (right) of Samsula wrestle in cole slaw and oil Wednesday, March 7, 2007. Cole slaw wrestling at Sopotnick's Cabbage Patch in Samsula is one of the high points of Bike Week. Women get into a pit of shredded cabbage mixed with vegetable oil and wrestle. (BARBARA V. PEREZ, ORLANDO SENTINEL / March 7, 2007)
caption to this photo.
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All my favorite Tweets turn out to be from Merlin Mann. Here's his latest genius.
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I do not believe that Johnny Cash was a nutritionist so this transcription of his song Six Gun Shooter can't possibly be right:
"He's got a thrity six cross his belt boys
Carring a forty four forty carb bean."
He's bean all around this world...
Found here.
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"This is not a sectional issue ... nor is it a partisan issue. This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. ... We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public schools available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him ... then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?"
From Richard Reeves piece found here.
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Can be found here.
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