Saturday, November 22
TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA
Or was it: MEDIA DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM TURKEYS.
we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.... Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - From Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
FIRST THINGS: Richard John Neuhaus on The Deadly Convenience of Christianity Without Culture: "Babylon cannot be transformed into the New Jerusalem. The latter is God's achievement in God's good time. To attempt to achieve it on our own is a delusion."
I didn't go and look at the recipes.
However, if any of them contain the phrase "two cups", the cook would probably be too exhausted to continue with the prep work.
Posted by: Yanni.Znaio at November 22, 2008 6:07 AMAch - my eyes! I only got as far as the picture on the cover, but it's just not right.
Curiosity killed my appetite.
Congratulations on having such a seminal blog. But you may want to change the name to American Indigestion.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at November 22, 2008 10:42 AMRamen reminds me of law school. And going to listen to speakers the school had because the school would provide lunch.
Mmmm! Lunch. Save mine for tomorrow.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at November 22, 2008 11:37 AMIn Re: Gov. Palin and the Turkeys (feathered and otherwise).
My Uncle Cles told me that when he was a boy they would play soccer using an inflated pig's bladder as the ball. Cles (my grandpa's little brother) was born on a farm in Ontario at the end of the Nineteenth Century. That didn't faze me, but I often wondered how they dealt with the irregularity in the ball's shape when playing.
It is shocking to me how many people don't understand that this is how agriculture works. Seventy years ago gardens for food were common in cities, etc. as were chickens.
I agree with Ann Althouse's statement.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at November 22, 2008 11:55 AMP.S.: Spring Break for my grandfather and his brothers did not involve beaches, bikini girls, and umbrella drinks. It invovled shoveling out the barn.
And for that which I never had to partake in I am grateful for the industrial revolution.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at November 22, 2008 11:59 AMRe Ramen:
There is American, and then there is Japanese. American ramen is to Japanese ramen as canned pasta is to a fine Italian restaurant.
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at November 22, 2008 5:16 PM
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