Ingredients: * 1 small jar (approx. 7 1/2 ounces) small curd paste * 1 cup milk * 3 tablespoons butter * 3 tablespoons flour * 1/4 teaspoon salt * dash ground cayenne pepper * 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard * 4 eggs, separated * 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Preparation Strain paste and set aside. In a saucepan, melt butter; blend in flour, salt, cayenne, and dry mustard. Simmer while stirring until

Laguna Dave points us to this Winnipeg Sun article from inveterate anti-American columnist Eric Margolis, which suggests that at least some of the “intellectual class” writing for the Canadian media (read:  Socialists) are likely to treat yesterday’s revelations that Ontario was the target for a major terror attack NOT as reason to get more serious about fighting Islamic extremists, but rather as an excuse to surrender to them (though the

From the National Post: A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned. Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh. The six-month RCMP

You know, every time I take my kid to the playground, or to the lake to watch the ducks, I find myself thinking, aren’t you ashamed that this is what you do for a living…? Then, after a mental pause (during which time I remember weekends spent grading student papers), I laugh and laugh and laugh! **** update:  And laugh!

And so it begins… Whether the historical referent becomes My Lai or Jenin (or something in between) will depend upon the outcome of the investigation, of course; but, if the early analogies are any indication, one does get the creepy sense that many in the US media are kind of hoping for the former, so convinced are they that the soldiers they so love are, by in large, nothing more

*must credit protein wisdom* What?  You’re still here? 

—I know, I know.  But the thing is, with Rockies’ shortstop Clint Barmes batting in the mid .180s, and with last year’s number one draft pick out of Long Beach State, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, more of a defensive specialist than an offensive threat—at least at this point in his professional career—the little guy has convinced himself he can fill the shortstop gap in the interim, and so he’s started spending

Only this time, no dead sailors!  So, you know, no harm, no foul. (h/t Dave Price) Meanwhile, in less important breaking news, “Troops cleared in Iraqi deaths is Ishaqi”: A U.S. military probe has exonerated U.S. troops in the deaths of Iraqi civilians in the town of Ishaqi in March, finding American forces followed standard procedures and committed no misconduct, defense officials said on Friday. The Ishaqi incident was one

From the Tax Prof Bog: Interesting article in this morning’s Des Moines Register:  Racial Slur Read by Professor Upsets U of I Law Students; Professor Says Racial Term Fit in a Negotiations Class, by Erin Jordan: A professor’s use of readings containing racial slurs has alarmed students and renewed discussions about diversity at the University of Iowa law school…. The university’s Black Law Students Association, a group of 27 students,

“You’re a corpse, man.  Take that to the bank and collect interest on it.” (from ”Woman in the Harbor,” original air date January 31, 1975)*