I've been making risotto lately by slavishly following some of the recipes in this book, which is a marvelous compendium of simple italian cooking (I particularly recommend the unexpected and weird but delicious strawberry risotto). Now that I'm a bit more experienced and confident with risotto,...
Jonathan Korman has a wonderful post on Michael Moore. He also has a great discussion of precisely why Out of Sight is so much better of a film than Magnolia..
Read Rodger and Matt on the absurdity of including Libya, a country with long-standing and substantial ties to terrorism, as a friend in the War on Terror, and considering Venezuela,.
It's no surprise that the Republicans are crashing on the rocks of immigration, but I never expected to see it this soon. I figured that the general loathing of the Other that the Republican Party has built its public identity around would be a big problem...
I'm sure that at least one of my co-bloggers will appreciate this series of attacks against Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, which has been used to bully too.
So I had just sort assumed that the best drama remaining on broadcast television would be retained as the crappy network it's on is merged with the other one. But.
In an improbable 2-1, 12 inning loss to the Phillies. Bad weather and various logistical difficulties have limited my appearances at Great American Ballpark, but today's game was pretty solid. Brandon Claussen pitched remarkably well for a guy who's not really all that good, facing a...
Julia on the one Democrat with any history of influence that Adam Nagourney actually cites for his "the Democrats should win by losing" thumbsucker:Tony CoelhoTony the guy who was responsible.
This is the second of a four part series commemmorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland.Part I: SMS LutzowHMS Lion was the first of the Big Cats (also.
I'm not sure; the competition is too stiff. But this is certainly a worthy candidate. (I think Becks is still being too generous with "frequently"; as far as I can tell, granting that I've ignored it entirely for a while, no articles in the Style Section...
Can this really be true? Even if I see him getting frogmarched, I won't believe it......more from Jeralyn...
The General reviews one of the books well below even The Party of Death on my reading list, Mary Cheney's recent apologia:I'm not sure I understand why Miss Cheney became.