In the years that followed, New Orleans could have remained a symbol of destruction and decay; of a storm that came and the inadequate response that followed. It was not hard to imagine a day when we’d tell our children that a once vibrant and wonderful city had been laid low by [...]
I read Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir of her year off to reset her senses and sense in Italy, India, Bali, but I didn’t finish the book. I picked it up right after finishing Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea. His quest raised the stakes; so a self-help travelogue was probably not [...]
The President’s Weekly focuses on Medicare and closing up the doughnut hole on the purchase of prescription drugs by seniors.
Beginning next year, preventive care – including annual physicals, wellness exams, and tests like mammograms – will be free for seniors as well. That will make it easier for folks to stay healthy. [...]
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city [...]
Baltimore CityPaper isn’t like DC CityPaper. One gets the impression with all the city has to cope with in terms of unemployment, crime, grit, and staggering infrastructure that there are people there who still believe and still like Baltimore. They don’t want to be defined by “The Wire” alone. Whereas the DC [...]
Before…
Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton were married October 11, 1975 in a brick house Bill purchased for the couple in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hillary’s dress was by Jessica McClintock purchased off-the-rack at Dillards. They had a private reception with 100 or so guests.
After…
Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky were married yesterday, July 31 (photo credit: [...]
A quiche hot out of the oven, a salad, and a cool bottle of white wine–there’s the perfect light meal.
– Julia Child, The French Chef Cookbook
It seemed only natural that our group of foodies would come together around Julia Child’s birthday once again (which is actually August 15). She would’ve been 98 this year. [...]
I actually took some time today to see how stocks were performing. Last week, the President signed the Wall Street reform legislation into law. One thing that’s interesting about Wall Street, uncertainty and the unknown creeps them out more so than reform and regulation etc. Once they know what it is, put [...]
Today, I read a post on TPM suggesting that the Pigford Settlement could’ve been a second target for right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and his like in addition to the NAACP (for their criticism of the Tea Party leadership for tolerating racism within their ranks).
…Andrew Breitbart’s timing of the release of the grossly distorted video of [...]
Yesterday, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the racist acts of Tea Party protesters. The backlash from the Tea Party has been furious.
But we are not an organization that shies away from controversy. The NAACP was founded on hope, not hate — and we will not stand idly by as racists work to divide our [...]
