More Friday Slackness

Whoa, two posts in one day. Guess I wasn’t done earlier. I’m back from my dry run at the museum. I borrowed the volunteer golf cart and drove the tram tour route, talking about all the aircraft I plan to cover on live tours with visitors once I certify. If anyone saw me putting around, gesticulating […]

SOTU Spaghetti

I make a dish called pasta puttanesca; literally, “whore’s spaghetti.”  The sauce is made of olive oil, garlic, anchovies, chopped tomatoes, capers, basil, and perhaps a few olives, tossed into pasta.  Last night, since I was about to sit down to watch President Obama deliver the annual State of the Union address to an assembly […]

Balanced News You Can Count On . . .

. . . to serve the corporate masters.  Warning: NPR kvetching ahead. I thought Diane Rehm’s show started off well this morning: she interviewed presidential science advisor Dr. John Holdren about the latest White House report on climate change.  And here’s the thing: she had him on by himself, not up against a panel of […]