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The Big Fat Undertaking: Blogger to cook through Blumenthal's "Fat Duck" cookbook

Hats off to a blogger in the Netherlands who is cooking his way through Heston Blumenthal's bible of molecular gastronomy, the Fat Duck Cookbook. He's documenting his culinary odyssey at The Big Fat Undertaking. One of the early recipes he tried was ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Heston Blumenthal

Biblical assassination bumper stickers

Eliminationist wags were selling bumper stickers that read "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" on Cafe Press. Psalm 109:8 reads: "Let his days be few. Let another take is his office." The next verse is, "Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow." ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party

Morning Coffee - 20 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Catherine Ashton,  Roberto Micheletti,  Hamid Karzai,  Barack Obama

A Botox tax is kind of sexist

Like Jill, I've got misgivings about the provision in the senate healthcare bill that would defray the costs of reform by levying a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. In practice, a plastic surgery tax would be relatively economically progressive. Plastic ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  19 Nov 2009

My first Newsweek story: Senate May Thwart Stupak

Stupak Amendment, the senate bill, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform. National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment to the health-care bill. The amendment—named ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Obsidian Wings,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Newsweek,  Bart Stupak,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

Bad Mommies Jump the Shark: Mom let cop taze her 10-year-old daughter

This story should put the annoying "bad mommy" confessional genre out of its misery. Nothing can top this. Bad mommies have officially jumped the shark: An Arkansas mom allegedly allowed a police office to taze her 10-year-old daughter because the ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  19 Nov 2009

Morning Coffee - 19 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  U N Security Council,  John Kerry,  FOX Broadcasting Company

C Street house no longer tax exempt

The IRS finally figured out that the fundamentalist flophouse on C Street owned by the secretive Christian group known as "The Family" is a dorm. Until recently, the C Street home for legislators avoided paying property taxes by claiming to be a church. ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Majikthise,  18 Nov 2009

Morning Coffee -18 November 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, UN Dispatch,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  Anglo American plc,  Silvio Berlusconi,  World Food Programme

The truth hurts: Newsweek's Palin cover

Newsweek used this photograph of Sarah Palin as this week's cover shot. The headline reads, "How do you solve a problem like Sarah? She's bad news for the GOP and everyone else." It's a damned good question, and I couldn't think of a better image to ...

From LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, Obsidian Wings,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Newsweek,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bryan Adams

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