While it’s hard to disagree with their opinion about the French, it seems to me the height of chutzpah for people who think that critter innards are haute cuisine, and have names for their weird gustatory atrocities like “bubble and squeak” and “spotted dick,” to be saying that the US has lousy food.
Woohoo!
The Tigers are in first place in their division, having won seven straight, with the best record in the major leagues. That has to boost the mood in Detroit, amid the GM/Delphi financial woes. Of course, it will also help if the Pistons can pull out two wins to stay alive in the championships. But I hate basketball.
Back In FL
Sorry for the light posting, but I flew back from CA yesterday, and had a bunch of stuff to do here, having been gone for over two weeks. The countertops are being installed today, and I’ll be dealing with Home Depot over issues with the cabinet installation, and having debris hauled off, and possibly even getting the sink plumbed.
And we get to leave for the airport at 4 PM for a weekend trip to St. Louis for a sister-in-law’s birthday party.
You might want to go read about useful leading indicators in Iraq, though (and no, number of car bombings aren’t among them).
Lots of other good stuff in the blogroll to the left, as well, and as usual.
Greater Love Can No Person Have
The admirable Virginia Postrel writes about how she became a kidney donor:
Usually when someone is seriously ill, all you can do is lend moral support and maybe cook some meals or run a few errands. Nothing you do will make that person well. But if you donate a kidney, you can (with the help of a team of medical specialists) cure her. Who wouldn
Interested In The Lunar Landing Challenge?
Robin Snelson is. Enough to have started a blog about it.
Ten Things I Hate
…about the Ten Commandments. [Keyboard warning, and you need bandwidth]
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Other Victims
Did the ideals of The New Frontier die with Jack Kennedy? It’s an interesting explanation of how many Democrats seem to have become Oswalds, rather than Kennedys, and why JFK would probably be unable to get the presidential nomination of the party today.
Also, some interesting related thoughts by a commenter at Dr. Sanity’s place. The totalitarian impulse of the communists didn’t die–it just became subsumed into the Democrat Party.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Other Victims
Did the ideals of The New Frontier die with Jack Kennedy? It’s an interesting explanation of how many Democrats seem to have become Oswalds, rather than Kennedys, and why JFK would probably be unable to get the presidential nomination of the party today.
Also, some interesting related thoughts by a commenter at Dr. Sanity’s place. The totalitarian impulse of the communists didn’t die–it just became subsumed into the Democrat Party.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Other Victims
Did the ideals of The New Frontier die with Jack Kennedy? It’s an interesting explanation of how many Democrats seem to have become Oswalds, rather than Kennedys, and why JFK would probably be unable to get the presidential nomination of the party today.
Also, some interesting related thoughts by a commenter at Dr. Sanity’s place. The totalitarian impulse of the communists didn’t die–it just became subsumed into the Democrat Party.
New Car Rentals: Smaller, Better, More Expensive
Watch a flexible economy re-price capital in real time. A subcompact is renting for more than an SUV in Boston from Avis according to WSJ. This is a strong signal (though not the first) that it is time to retool. Honda is building new plants to churn out hundreds of thousands of hybrids that will hit the market in a few years.