Huffington: **** update: “you dare to mock the creamed corn? Because I must warn you that I have powerful friends, peoples.”
May 12, 2005
May 12, 2005
The sixth set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly reactionary rightwing blogs sneer at homosexuals and minorities of all stripes
1970s, group 6 The American Friend (1977) The Sugarland Express (1974) Klute (1971) Unholy Rollers (1972) Straight Time (1978) White Lightning (1973) The Hospital (1971) Mr. Majestyk (1974) The Hot Rock (1972) Chinatown (1974) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Bad Company (1972) Rancho Deluxe (1975) Silver Streak (1976) Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Coming Home (1978) Bound for Glory (1976) North Dallas Forty (1979) The Man Who
May 12, 2005
Overheard inside an Anbar province bunker, Thursday, May 12
First militant: “About yesterday, Wahid…”* Second militant: “Please. I feel enough shame already –” First militant: “– No, please. Allow me to say my piece. Because after sleeping on it I have decided I agree with you. Life is so short, we should try to experience all of the pleasures Allah’s mercy makes possible—gustatory, spiritual, carnal… Second militant: “…So then you’re saying you agree with me about the anal beads?”
May 12, 2005
protein wisdom: the hummus recipe
3 (15 oz) cans garbonzo beans 1/5 cup lemon juice 2 1/2 cloves garlic 1/4 cup sesame oil 1 tbl minced flat leaf parsley 1/2 tsp Cumin pinch of salt pinch of ground black pepper pinch Cardamom Drain 2 cans garbonzo beans but save half the juice from the third can; pour all three cans of beans and remaining juice into a food processor. Add lemon juice, garlic (crushed), parsley,
May 12, 2005
BREAKING: Air France flight 332 from Paris to Boston is being diverted to Bangor, Maine
One of the passengers “with an Arabic-sounding name” positively matched a name on the no fly list. The plane should touch down around 2:45 EST. Developing…*
May 12, 2005
Is it okay to shout “fire” in a crowded firehouse? One that’s actually, y’know, on fire? Metaphorically speaking?
Not in Montgomery County, MD, it isn’t.* **** (thanks to Stephen Meyer)